Maurice Druon Quotes
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
Maj Sjowall -
I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
Dakota Fanning -
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
Karen O -
I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
Mahesh Babu -
I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
Samuel L. Jackson -
When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa -
The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
Wayne Rogers -
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
Larry Harvey -
Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
Harriet Tubman -
'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
Randall Terry
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
Manny Pacquiao -
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde -
The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
Vanity -
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal 'honor' and court etiquette.
Isaac Asimov
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I look for challenges to keep me going.
Paul Pierce -
The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
Stevie Smith -
ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.
Evan Wright -
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke -
Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.
Maurice Druon