Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Quotes
The ancient city, like all human society, had ranks, distinctions, and inequalities.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
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The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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In life, I take my decisions and stand by them. Some decisions may have proven to be not the best, but I have learnt from them, and I've never repeated a mistake again. If someone tells me to turn left, I will go right! I could not have been taught a lesson in any other way rather than by going through it.
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We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.
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The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
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I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I'm so fond of them.
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The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.
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The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.
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My best memories in life are with my elder sister Priyanka Tiwari and my brother Aishwarya Tripathi.
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If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
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The ancient city, like all human society, had ranks, distinctions, and inequalities.
