Claudine Guerin de Tencin Quotes
One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
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It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.
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My mom has always been a caregiver, and she's perfect in this role leading my foundation.
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One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
