Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes
I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.Toussaint Louverture
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Kate Fleetwood -
I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
Sally Field -
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
Wassily Kandinsky -
In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
Olivia Cooke -
Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C. S. Lewis -
The Turks would do anything with a captured screaming infidel body - make it chew its own penis, thrust the testicles up the anus, saw the noseless earless head off with slow delicacy.
Anthony Burgess
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I have a great family and great friends, and I think that they'll keep me grounded.
Kelly Marie Tran -
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.
David Milch -
Growing up, I didn't just watch 'The Cosby Show.' I watched 'Growing Pains' and 'Family Ties,' too.
Lena Waithe -
If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.'
Chris Carter -
One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.
Drew Houston
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I don't have to pitch movies. I'm no good at it!
Jason Statham -
I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.
Drew Daywalt -
'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
James Bobin -
One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.
George Foreman -
I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.
Toussaint Louverture