Georges Pompidou Quotes
Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
Kassie DePaiva
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
Daniel Drew
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
Wendy Kopp
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
Youssou N'Dour
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Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
Indra Nooyi
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
Rachel Sklar
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When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
Hari Kondabolu
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
Adam Gopnik
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One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.
Aubrey Beardsley
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
Lord Byron
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He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.
Laurence Sterne
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The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
Mavis Staples
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One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.
Ellen Key
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I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.
Brendan Fletcher
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There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.
Leo Christopher
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.
Colm Toibin
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Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.
Georges Pompidou