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.

Denis Diderot

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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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• 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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• My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

  

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• People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

  

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• I enjoyed both equally, but in different ways, ... Maynard gave me the chance to do wonderful word comedy...When I was offered Gilligan, I chose it because that character gave me the chance to do physical comedy, which I love.

  

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• One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  

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• I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.

  

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• I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new.

  

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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.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Petty