Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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The great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.
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The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them.
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I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.
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Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.
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It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.
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The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.
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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
