Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I dig all kinds of competition.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
I've always dreamed of having a large family.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
Taylor Momsen -
I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
Sally Mann -
I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
Garry Trudeau
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It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
Karen Morley -
I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.
Victoria Aveyard -
When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
Natalie Cole -
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi -
You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
Chogyam Trungpa -
The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.
Charles Babbage -
You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.
William Stafford -
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
James A. Garfield -
The less men think, the more they talk.
Charles de Montesquieu