Emile de Girardin Quotes
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
