Jean Rostand Quotes
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
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Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
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I am a native in this world And think in it as a native thinks
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Libya stood as a source of stability in volatile northern Africa in 2011. The administration turned it into a failed state that exposed southern Europe to refugees and terrorist elements, all of which Gadhafi had warned about.
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I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.
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The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.
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The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.
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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
