Daniel Pennac Quotes
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
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I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.
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I appeal to the philosophers of all countries to unite and never again mention Heidegger or talk to another philosopher who defends Heidegger. This man was a devil. I mean, he behaved like a devil to his beloved teacher, and he has a devilish influence on Germany. … One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was.
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The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.
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The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
