Jean Henri Fabre Quotes
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
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The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.
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The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.
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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
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The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
