Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I adored my father.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.
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Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
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When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.
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I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
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I did learn a lot from 'Project Runway,' things I could incorporate into my own life.
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There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?
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I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.
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I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.
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People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.
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I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
