Bernard Pivot Quotes
I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.
Quotes to Explore
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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I'm very affected by what I watch and read.
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You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.
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I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.
