Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Jean de La Fontaine

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• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Look
  • Alive
  • I Can

• I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Body
  • Hollywood
  • Actress

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Day
  • Better

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Religion

• I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Education
  • Duty

• I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Home
  • Job
  • Guy

• Ruzzle's my therapy. When I get off the stage from a packed show and I'm exhausted, I'll just go Ruzzle for like a good 30 minutes.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Stage
  • Therapy

• I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Movie
  • I Love
  • Premiere

• Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • History
  • Black

• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Soccer
  • Through

• I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Hate

• The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Character
  • Ethics
  • Medicine

• The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

  

  John Muir
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• If my mom came to the sets, we would speak to her in Tulu, and no one would understand. That's an advantage when you know any South Indian language.

  

  Pooja Hegde
  • Mom

• Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Water
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

  

  John Deacon Queen

• It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine