Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
At this period of his existence, meat and blood, entrails, and all that had ever lived and breathed disgusted him as food, for an animal dies in pain just as man does, and it repelled him to be digesting death's agony.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
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I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.
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At this period of his existence, meat and blood, entrails, and all that had ever lived and breathed disgusted him as food, for an animal dies in pain just as man does, and it repelled him to be digesting death's agony.
