Francois Jacob Quotes
For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
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But Israel’s might is useless in a struggle that is not about winning territory but securing democratic rights for all. This is why opposition to the grim realities must be coupled with a battle of ideas in which walls and checkpoints provide no defense. Furthermore, it is why the struggle must take a moral form that offers Israel no excuses for its oppressive measures.
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Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
