Emile Zola Quotes
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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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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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.
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Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
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If you are, as an actor, are just worried about looking pretty and being well liked, then I personally feel you are doing a disservice to your audience, the craft, the creative process, writers, and directors. Your job is to tell a story and to tell the truth, and we can't always be the most likeable character in every situation.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.
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In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
