Jean Racine Quotes

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Jean Racine

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• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Cooking

• I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Work
  • Author

• I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Respect

• I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

  

  Ice T
  • Money
  • Art
  • Culture

• Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Important
  • Me
  • Trust

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Career

• From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Remember
  • Lawyer
  • I Can

• No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Technology
  • Religion
  • Values

• I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I prefer if friends come over to my office and we talk our heart out over a cup of coffee. I feel that no one talks freely at industry bashes. Everyone has to behave in a certain way, and I think no one is real there. We can't have heart-to-heart conversations, and I start feeling uncomfortable at such dos.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Friends

• When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Hope

• Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Power
  • Choose

• He's just really unlikely as a hero - which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Hero
  • Mad

• My gay child would be a soldier, and he would change the slogan from 'Don't ask, don't tell' to 'Don't fuck with me, queen!!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Gay
  • Soldier

• It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you know, if you look at the original picture where people addressed it, I was trying to sit behind the coolers and out of the way, 'cause I didn't want to interrupt anybody else's right to stand and hold attention to the flag.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.

  

  Ato Boldon
  • Football

• After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

  

  Sid Caesar
  • Week
  • Prove

• The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Love
  • Laugh
  • Cry

• I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

  

  Jean Racine