Emile Souvestre Quotes
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
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I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
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The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.
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My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
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Your voice takes you to your heart.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.
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There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill with impunity, where they can turn up at a place, shoot seven people - really at point-blank fashions - and then get away with it and be, in fact, promoted. And then there is the actual responsibility, the governmental responsibility. My aunt's government forbade us, initially, from filing a police report - which is every Pakistani citizen's right under the law.
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Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.
