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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Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.
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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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Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
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What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.
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Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
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Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
