Denis Diderot Quotes
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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The world is always in movement.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.
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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
