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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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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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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I've never, in my whole 30 years in office, run a negative ad.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.
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Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
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I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
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There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
