Andre Chenier Quotes
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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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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It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.
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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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Believe in the holy contour of life
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I've been known to create clothes that are very formfitting and feminine.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
