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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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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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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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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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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I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
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I'm really funny now.
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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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.
