Jean Vanier Quotes
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne -
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Frances McDormand -
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
Wayne Rogers -
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra -
I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
Caitlin Moran -
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
Earl Wilson -
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman -
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
Harriet Walter -
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
Vera Farmiga -
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
Frances Mayes -
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
Samantha Bond -
The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly
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Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Mason Cooley -
The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.
Christopher Buckley -
The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.
Mahmoud Darwish -
I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
Francesca Annis -
Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.
Peter Falk -
The strong need the weak in order to become more human, more compassionate.
Jean Vanier