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 -
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 -
I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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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 -
The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
John Lee Hancock -
Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.
Chogyam Trungpa -
I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
Rafael Nadal -
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Bryan Adams -
Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.
Jason Statham -
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
Bernard Pivot