Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
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I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.
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I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
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Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"!
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Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.
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If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.
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So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.
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I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
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It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.
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My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.
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I'm not saying it's the city's fault. But I'm saying it's the city's fault that those two dogs are walking around the city attacking people. And I think that the city should do something about helping her to the best of their ability.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
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Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.
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We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.
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Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I don't really send text messages. I rarely carry my phone. I occasionally check messages at the end of the night, but I don't carry it around.
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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
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What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
