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.Claudine Guerin de Tencin
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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.
Igor Luksic -
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.
Ed Miliband -
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
Natalie Wood -
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.
Ralph Fiennes -
All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
Taissa Farmiga -
Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
Pat Brown
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
Kary Mullis -
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.
Gary Allan -
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.
G. Willow Wilson -
I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
Halima Aden -
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
Fawn Hall
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
Carli Lloyd -
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.
Karl Rove -
I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
Yuri Milner -
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.
Zach LaVine -
I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.
Harriet Walter -
Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
Wayne Rogers
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
Ibrahim Babangida -
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Oscar Wilde -
I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
Daniel Cormier -
I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.
Blake Mycoskie -
The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful… it's not. It is delicate.
Stephen Tobolowsky -
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Claudine Guerin de Tencin