Jean Henri Fabre Quotes
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.
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A kind of racism still exists in the United States, and Islamophobia is a more convenient way to express that sentiment. There has also been an attempt to paint Muslims as enemies of the United States.
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On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'
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There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
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The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.
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The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
