Jean Rostand Quotes

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

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• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Culture

• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Responsibility

• It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Song
  • Drama

• What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • You
  • Content

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
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  • Guy
  • Respect

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Together
  • Political

• Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mistake

• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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  • Long
  • Employment

• But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Star
  • Travel

• I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Women
  • Fun

• Most people think I'm immodest.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Think
  • Most

• Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

  

  Paul Scott
  • People
  • Hearts
  • Gossip

• My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Country
  • Father

• During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • Mind
  • Game

• As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Find

• I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • Power
  • Free
  • Competition

• We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

  

  Jean Rostand
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