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Charles Baudelaire Quotes

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Charles Baudelaire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: french
Birth: April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867

Topics

Giving Bad Pleasure Taste Offense

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Mother Home Me Christian Christ Led

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

Culture America Prevention Focused

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Relationship Collaboration Theatre

There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me.

People Me Who Lots Types

The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Animal Meaning Island Alaska Word

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

Beauty Because Sensual Chosen Been

'Okja' I don't think would have been made if Netflix hadn't made it. That, to me, is a much bigger thing than whether someone watches it on a big screen or a phone. Because it simply wouldn't have existed otherwise.

Me Think Someone Watches Phone Big

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Life Yourself Writing My Life You

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

Relationship Anger Think Genius Way

I worked at 'Mademoiselle,' and then it shut, and I worked at 'GQ' for three years, during which I was freelancing. I wrote for 'Vibe.' I did music reviews. I wrote for 'Time Out.' I was desperate to get into 'Entertainment Weekly' or 'New York Magazine.' Like, desperate.

Courtney A. Kemp

Music Time New York New Three Out

If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.

Sorry Graduation Someone You Go Way

There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Power Interesting Corruption Go Way

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