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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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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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
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As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
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My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.
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From my position, obviously I want to maximise my potential and go as far as I can go and as high as I can go, but I'm not chasing fame. I get enough of that.
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I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
