Charles XII of Sweden Quotes
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
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To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.
