Madame de Stael Quotes

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

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• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Down

• I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Attention
  • Clothes
  • Too Much

• I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Pieces
  • Only
  • Outdoors

• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Self

• I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Stories
  • Bible
  • Theater

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Politics
  • Thankful

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• I think, because of the lack of guaranteed contracts in the league, there's hesitancy to speaking your minds at times. But I feel like there could be a movement beginning where guys are feeling a little more comfortable talking about things that are important to them.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Important
  • Think
  • Feeling

• We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Work
  • Society
  • Best

• Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Say
  • Walk

• When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

  

  Astro Teller
  • Work
  • Technology

• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • People

• After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Free
  • Expense
  • Proving

• When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • America
  • Band
  • Player

• Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mean
  • Heaven
  • Winning