Denis Diderot Quotes
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
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We have been roommates our entire lives. We just bought a place together.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.
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My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
