Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Charles Baudelaire

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• I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

  

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• I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.

  

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• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  

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• Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

  

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• Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.

  

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• Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

  

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• I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

  

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• There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

  

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• What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?

  

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• I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

  

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• When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.

  

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• 'Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.'

  

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• Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds, it's like adrenaline: The pain is such a sudden rush for me!

  

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• The violence and intimidation we have seen should never have happened. It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within.

  

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• In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.

  

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• People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

  

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• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

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• I don't think, 'Oh, you know, I'm crazy and zany.'

  

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• If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

  

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• I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

  

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• I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

  

  Charles Baudelaire