Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables: le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer. Les autres hommes sont taillables et corvéables, faits pour l'écurie, c'est-à-dire pour exercer ce qu'on appelle des professions.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
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'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.
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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
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Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.
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To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.
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I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
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Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables: le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer. Les autres hommes sont taillables et corvéables, faits pour l'écurie, c'est-à-dire pour exercer ce qu'on appelle des professions.
