Remy de Gourmont Quotes
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
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I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.
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One of the cool things I remember is the Swiss people brought their big cowbells.
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When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.
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If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.
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Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.
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So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.
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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
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There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
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Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?
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You’re just trying to find an audience who will love you and I’m not enough.
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I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs – a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy – you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
