Charles Baudelaire Quotes

'Au Lecteur' To the Reader

Charles Baudelaire

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• I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Remember
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Leadership

• When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Money
  • House
  • First

• Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Money
  • Idea

• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Practice
  • Thankful

• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Reading
  • Everything
  • Ever

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• If I spend 10 days at home, I'll be dying to get back to the set. I love the thrill of a good dialogue, the buzz of shooting.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Good
  • Dialogue
  • Thrill

• You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Want

• Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • School
  • Day
  • Always

• Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Ideas

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• 'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Struggle
  • End
  • In The End

• I'm kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic - I mean, even if I'm mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that's the spirit.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Mean
  • First

• Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren't on voter rolls or voted before achieving legal citizenship. A citizenship petition can be denied if they were.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Immigration
  • Legal
  • Achieving

• When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • May
  • Business

• Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Single
  • Addiction

• Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Song
  • Write
  • Track

• There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Needs
  • Creativity
  • Disturbance

• Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Home
  • Style
  • Evening

• I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

  

  Peter Stuyvesant
  • Value
  • Christian

• 'Au Lecteur' To the Reader

  

  Charles Baudelaire