Adrienne Monnier Quotes
One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
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To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.
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My activism is a part of me. If my art has anything to do with me, then my activism is part of my art.
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Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canadian Indians: 'I've told you what a foul decadent lazy crowd they are & what I think of them !! But this camp is pitched right inside an Indian reserve … & we have hundreds of the mouldy local tribe camped around us' (6 October 1919)
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To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.
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I'm delighted to be joining the cast of 'The Fall' for what is going to be an exciting and gripping second series.
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I was 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball.
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I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.
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If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
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Every difference in men's concepts should be regarded as reflecting an objective contradiction. Objective contradictions are reflected in subjective thinking, and this process constitutes the contradictory movement of concepts, pushes forward the development of thought, and ceaselessly solves problems in man's thinking.
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The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.
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When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.
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A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
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The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.
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I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
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If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant’s reasoning to the grown man’s passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.
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Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
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I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.
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One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.
