Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.
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When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.
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I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
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Gay marriage... I'm a traditionalist. I'm older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it's always been a man and a woman. I'm thinking, 'I don't quite get it'.
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Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
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I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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Once more I hear the everlasting seaBreathing beneath the mountain's fragrant breast
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I'm obsessed with sushi.
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Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.
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I don't need security detail; I don't need anything special. I just walk around, and I can do that, and that's a real luxury when you're in my industry.
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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
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Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.
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I love color and I love to dress like a woman.
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When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
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Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.
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No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
