Alfred de Musset Quotes

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

Alfred de Musset

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• It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Important
  • Together

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Good
  • Think
  • Christian

• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Live
  • Die
  • Mistake

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Speak
  • Radio
  • Go

• In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Small
  • College

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Existence

• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Confidence

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Find
  • Will

• I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • New York
  • Keep Going

• The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Work
  • Family
  • Trust

• I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Different
  • Job
  • Theatre

• Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Singing

• The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • You
  • More
  • Temptation

• I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Book
  • Controversial

• It's so hard to so, so easy to say. But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Sometimes
  • Easy
  • Hard

• Taxpayers need relief, ... Consumer confidence is down, energy prices are up, and economic growth is stagnant. The economy needs a boost, and this tax relief will provide that boost.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Confidence

• During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Feeling
  • Food
  • Picture

• What makes night within us may leave stars.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Night
  • Stars
  • Leave

• What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Woman
  • Stupid
  • Wicked