Andre Chenier Quotes
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.
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This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
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When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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Each man's soul is his genius.
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Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
