Bernard Pivot Quotes
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
Quotes to Explore
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.
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Too many entrepreneurs think their valuation is the real economic price of their company. It's not. It's not a real economic price unless you are selling 100%.
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The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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The civil war in Syria is the worst humanitarian tragedy of our generation and one that our government, and the world, is failing to deal with adequately.
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I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.
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You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
