Charles Baudelaire Quotes
If rape and poison, dagger and burning, have still not embroidered their pleasant designs on the banal canvas of our pitiable destinies, it’s because our souls, alas, are not bold enough!
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
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I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
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But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.
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Deserve your dream.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.
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In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.
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I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.
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When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
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If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
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Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
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If rape and poison, dagger and burning, have still not embroidered their pleasant designs on the banal canvas of our pitiable destinies, it’s because our souls, alas, are not bold enough!
