Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I have learned to be patient.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
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For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
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When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
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I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.
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I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.
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Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
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I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
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I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.
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I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.
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Christina Hendricks is still one of my favorite people to dress because she has this old Hollywood, vintage quality to how she likes to get ready.
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Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
