Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. ... The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
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Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
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Dust had dimmed only a fraction, not enough. Decay had brushed with its rotten fingers not nearly all it should. It was an enchanted sweet, stuck in the throat of time.
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saddened to hear the passing of a true artistic master, H.R. Giger. Ur legacy will live on through ur innovative & stimulating originality
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg-that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
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Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.
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People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.
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Every quarter, we need to see the portfolio and follow the accounting practice of mark-to-market that values investments according to the prevailing market prices and at the price at which they are made.
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Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.
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I wake up, eat, make a beat. Play Xbox, make another beat and go to bed. Occasionally do something. I rarely party.
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Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.
