Jacques Maritain Quotes
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.Jacques Maritain
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
Camille Paglia -
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
Gary Ross -
Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Faith Hill -
We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn't mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really - should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living.
Najib Mikati -
My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.
Fionn Whitehead -
We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.
Nandan Nilekani
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It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
Rachel Cusk -
Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Vera Wang -
I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.
Victoria Wood -
There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.
Adam Driver -
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age of the Anthropocene. The geologic age of the Anthropocene. Those high priests of material evidence have given us our own epoch like the Holocene, the Pleistocene! Apparently we now, it seems, have superhuman powers.
Kate Bernheimer -
Since the show started, Scottish tourism has increased a great deal - there is definitely an 'Outlander' effect.
Sam Heughan
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People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.
Eddie Trunk -
Tough love is the hardest to give.
Octavia Spencer -
I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.
Lady Gaga -
'Is all this serious?' Gurgeh said, turning, amused, from the screen to the drone.'Deadly serious,' Flere-Imsaho told him. Gurgeh laughed and shook his head. He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.
Iain Banks -
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
W. Somerset Maugham -
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
Larry Wall
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
Stanley Kubrick -
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
Edgar Wilson Nye -
I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.
Cathy O'Neil -
There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge -
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques Maritain