Jean Anouilh Quotes
On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir !
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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We just here to do our job.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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I decided a long time ago to be unfiltered and wholly myself in these areas of social media. I've been very happy with the results of this decision. I feel that I get lots of interaction and loyal support. So I'm grateful for my Twitter and Facebook followers every day.
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Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
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When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
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I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'
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As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
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I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
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Bill Clinton has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore he is a bore and will always be a bore.1
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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
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On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir !
