Charles Baudelaire Quotes

La femme est naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable.

Charles Baudelaire

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Real
  • America
  • Always

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Proud
  • Tradition
  • Self-Esteem

• Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • More
  • Cash
  • Programmer

• A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Great
  • Intelligence

• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Financial
  • Fight
  • Others

• When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Speak
  • Act
  • Consequences

• I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Day
  • Sometimes
  • Bag

• The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Government

• Duty is not collective; it is personal.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Duty
  • Personal
  • Collective

• You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.

  

  Hamadoun Toure
  • Education
  • Health
  • Goals

• The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future

• 'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Up
  • Power
  • Style

• Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Quality
  • Stupid
  • Clever

• Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die.

  

  Michael Wincott
  • Moment
  • Going

• The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.

  

  Charles Fort
  • Survival
  • Fitness

• And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Reason

• Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Culture
  • Winning

• I love bluegrass music, I love acoustic music, and I try at the right times to push that a little bit.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Music

• La femme est naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable.

  

  Charles Baudelaire