Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Quotes
The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
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A theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
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Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.
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Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.
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The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
