Denis Diderot Quotes
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
Quotes to Explore
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
Edgardo Osorio
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
Karen Thompson Walker
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
O. J. Simpson
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
Kate Winslet
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
Garry Shandling
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
Karin Slaughter
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
Captain Beefheart
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What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.
Christopher Lee
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A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman R. Augustine
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot