Jacques Maritain Quotes
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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Free love sounds great.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
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Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
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To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.
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People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.
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Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology. (p. 245)
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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
