Camille Desmoulins (Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins) Quotes
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.
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The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.
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She stood there bright as the sun on that California coast.He was a Midwestern boy on his own.She looked at him with those soft eyes, so innocent and blue.He knew right then he was too far from home.He was too far from home.
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I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.
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Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services.
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Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.
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I'm not a millionaire. I have a high earning power, but I never did have any capital.
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Location is not, as the estate agents say, everything. We must also consider our place in history.
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I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is the focus, and from that I hope everybody who believes in democracy, in certain freedoms, will get louder, will grow their voices.
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Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
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I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
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Change yourself and your work will seem different.
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When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.
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Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.
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What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
