Louis XVIII of France Quotes
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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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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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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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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Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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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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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
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To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
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There ought to be a million-person march on the Mall... that can be heard in the living quarters of the White House.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
