Jean Rostand Quotes
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
Quotes to Explore
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.
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'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.
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The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
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I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.
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I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.
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You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
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A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.
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Day of wrath, that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.
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When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.
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The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.
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I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."
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The only people who are not interested in being the V.P. pick are the people who have not been asked!
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
