Jean Rostand Quotes
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
Quotes to Explore
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.
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America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
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It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.
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It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
