Denis Diderot Quotes

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Denis Diderot

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• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Easy
  • Ears

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Team
  • Better

• People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Poor
  • Very

• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege. That's not to say people don't make mistakes - we're all human. No one's perfect. I'm just going to be myself.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Want
  • House
  • Beginning

• My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• The kids don't really have any part of my television life. Fortunately, there aren't many times when show business intrudes on our family existence.

  

  James Arness
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Love
  • Why
  • Book

• Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.

  

  David Novak
  • Moral
  • Bible
  • Affirmation

• If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is ... female chauvinism.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • Women
  • Spiritual
  • Moral

• My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the "backlines," where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Moral