Bernard Pivot Quotes
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.Bernard Pivot
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
Edgar Wright -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
Tamar Braxton -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David -
History's a resource.
Laura Linney -
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
Tamron Hall -
I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
Olivia Wilde -
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
Larry Flynt
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
Faith Hill -
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos -
I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
Victoria Jackson -
Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
Oscar Hijuelos -
Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.
G. Willow Wilson
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I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
James Harden -
I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
Jane Fonda -
I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.
Emo Philips -
Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'
Zach Galifianakis -
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
N. T. Wright -
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
Bernard Pivot