Louis XIV Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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My family are my friends.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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I will not say sorry and be pardoned for doing a godly act.
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Redeem The time. Redeem The unread vision in the higher dream While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.
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I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
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At this point, I have 10 pairs of cat earrings because fans bring them to me. The next song I write, I'm going to be like, 'I love Chanel.'
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
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When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'
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The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.
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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.