Louis XVIII of France Quotes

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Louis XVIII of France

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• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

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• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

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• Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

  

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• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  

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• I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.

  

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• I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.

  

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• The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.

  

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• I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

  

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• The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

  

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• We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

  

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• It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

  

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• The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

  

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• I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

  

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• Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

  

  Louis XVIII of France