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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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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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'm very affected by what I watch and read.
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I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
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I am so pro-swine flu it's ridiculous. We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else.
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I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush.
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I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
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I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.
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I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.
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In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale.
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I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.
