Maria Edgeworth Quotes
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a company is not allowed to provide a personal benefit to a decision maker in return for business. But hiring the sons and daughters of powerful executives and politicians is hardly just the province of banks doing business in China: it has been a time-tested practice here in the United States.
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I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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You remember, we were sittin' there, by the water,You put your arm around me for the first time.You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter.You are the best thing that's ever been mine.
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A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
