Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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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.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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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.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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.
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The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
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'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.'
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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
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When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.
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In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.
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No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.
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Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.
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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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La femme est naturelle, c'est-à-dire abominable.
