Jean Giraudoux Quotes
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Jean Giraudoux
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Karl Marx
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
Idina Menzel
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
Nancy Johnson
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
K. A. Applegate
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
Floyd Skloot
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
Yvonne De Carlo
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
Dakota Johnson
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
Octavia Spencer
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
Rachel Nichols
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
Zubin Mehta
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Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.
Uri Avnery
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
Halle Berry
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There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
Tom Stoppard
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The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.
Esther Rantzen
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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Jean Giraudoux