Claudine Guerin de Tencin Quotes
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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You never know what's going to happen. In a game where you're down by 20, you're still trying to win the game.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.
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I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
