Jacques Prevert Quotes
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
Jacques Prevert
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
Gary Lineker
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
Mallory Ortberg
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
Ferran Adria
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
Walter O'Brien
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
Natasha Richardson
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
Lance Henriksen
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
Ted Nugent
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I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'
Camila Alves
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Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.
Hermann Hesse
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
Yann Tiersen
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Religious liberty doesn't include encouraging a fellow American to engage in violent jihad and kill an American here. That is not protected free speech. That is not protected religious belief.
George Pataki
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When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies.
William Shakespeare
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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
Jacques Prevert