Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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I would kiss you, had I the courage.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
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You recall a girl that's been in nearly every song?This is what I heard of course the story could be wrong.She's the one - I've been toldNow she's wearing a band of gold.Peggy Sue got married not long ago.
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I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.
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In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
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If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
