Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes

We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.

Toussaint Louverture

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• When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
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• The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

  

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• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

  

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• It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Art
  • Know
  • Idea

• If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Play
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• I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

  

  Marat Safin
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• We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

  

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• I'm just glad to be able to work.

  

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• Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunity I had with 'Cheers'. I think it's one of the funniest shows ever. They are some of my best friends.

  

  Ted Danson
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  • Career
  • Opportunity

• It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

  

  Eden Hazard
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• To understand the economy then is to comprehend how it is driven by the animal spirits. Just as Adam Smith’s invisible hand is the keynote of classical economics, Keynes’ animal spirits are the keynote to a different view of the economy - a view that explains the underlying instabilities of capitalism.

  

  George Akerlof
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• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • War
  • Hope
  • Free

• We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Day
  • Hand
  • Always