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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“The thing is, women try to look slim-hipped like men, and they can’t. Not if they have any female hormones. The very thing that makes a woman so lovely is exactly what you have: a big, beautiful trochanteric subcutaneous adipose tissue deposit.”
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.
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There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president when he is acting in his capacity as chief law-enforcement officer of the country.
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If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
