Jacques Maritain Quotes
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.
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One in our hands and another in our ming, and the most importan is the one in our mind.
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Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.
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The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.
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Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
