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Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Charles Baudelaire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beauty Quality Present Pleasure Only

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

John Bolton

End Diplomacy Interests Advance Does

We know, in Wales or in England - you simply can't trust Labour on the NHS. In England, we are delivering for patients while Labour just use the NHS as a political football. We won't let them; we'll always fight for the NHS.

Andrew Lansley

Trust Football Fight Political You

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

John Oliver

Relationship People Listening Saying

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou

Motivational Defeated May Encounter

Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

Amanda Tapping

Women Girl I Am Strong Doing Goofy

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

Stanislav Grof

Literature You Psychedelic Natural

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.

Ronen Bergman

Son Best Child Parents Friends Two

I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I Am Now Why Hard Hearing Still

I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!

Lisa Loeb

Good Me Mom Better Person Better

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

Jasmila Zbanic

Truth Generation Overcome Trauma How

Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Eyes Spiritual Understanding Achieve

To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.

Annie Jacobsen

Mother Today Men Start Black Parent