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Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

Jean de la Bruyere

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: 1645 - 1696

Topics

Great Best Men Man You Need

When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' I was so angry. I couldn't understand why it didn't say men as well.

Women Men Angry Fighting America

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

Meir Soloveichik

Society Self-Interest Scale Also

I like my privacy, and my personal bank manager is one of my favourite people.

People Privacy Manager Personal Bank

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Musicians Long You Never Tell Been

As a performer, there was nobody better than Morrissey.

Better Nobody Than Performer

My family's so awesome. They help me be the person I can be.

Michelle Carter

Family Me Help I Can Person Awesome

For a novelist, the great thing about the Stone Age people is that we know virtually nothing about their beliefs - which means that I get to make it up! But it's still got to be plausible.

Age Great People Stone Know Nothing

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

Today Truth Commitment Truth Is More

I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Fun Remember Speech Young Sometimes

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Mother Vanity Skin Colour Thanks

I want to inspire kids, and yeah, if that helps with expansion teams - in the MLS or anything like that - but my main goal is just to inspire. Try and inspire our youth.

Christian Pulisic

Youth Inspire Goal Want Try Kids

Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. One has to work just as much with children as with adults, but the manner of work is very different. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act.

Work Truth Children Want Way Never

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