Sacha Guitry Quotes
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I don't like controversy.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.
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In general, I don't really think too much about pacing, myself. You kind of look at each script and what each script demands.
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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words - being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
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What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.
