Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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War is the province of danger.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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The child in me wanted to try out new things and do something different.
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In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.
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Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
