Jacques Ellul Quotes
Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I don't like possessions.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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We should all love animals.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
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Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
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You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.
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I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I can see both sides of the argument.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
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Freedom is completely without meaning unless it is related to necessity, unless it represents victory over necessity.
