Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
Hannah Storm
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
Halle Berry
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
Oliver Reed
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
Zach Anner
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
Tamara Ecclestone
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
Ralph Peters
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
Laura Dekker
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
Zach Johnson The Fray
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
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My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.
Vincent Cassel
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
Warren Ellis
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
Yossi Sarid
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
Carli Lloyd
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
Gail Carriger
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In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...
Hyman G. Rickover
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
Usain Bolt
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As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
Dylan Moran
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It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.
Alice Oswald
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Charles de Montesquieu