Denis Diderot Quotes

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

Denis Diderot

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• The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Same

• The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Colonial

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Against

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Small
  • Child
  • Advice

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Asian
  • Barbie

• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Family
  • Home
  • You

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Never

• Look at Rihanna. She's so sexy. She comes from Planet Sexy. I worship her. I really, really do.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • She
  • Look
  • Sexy

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  

  E. B. White
  • Fall
  • Act
  • Circus

• The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • People
  • Live
  • High

• There's so many misconceptions about me and my personality. People think I'm not a nice person, you know, or maybe a diva; not just about me, but the misconceptions of other models as well, or supermodels.

  

  Jessica White
  • People
  • Nice
  • Personality

• I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Up
  • Important
  • Done

• I still believe in the power of government to make lives better, and I believe that if someone is willing to take a stand, other people will follow.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • God
  • Believe
  • Important