Edouard de Pomiane Quotes
Throughout history, the Poles have defended Europe. They would fight, and - between battles - they would eat and drink.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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Jealousy is a scary thing.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
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There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
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History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.
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There's always going to be somebody that don't like you. It's life.
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Throughout history, the Poles have defended Europe. They would fight, and - between battles - they would eat and drink.
