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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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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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew. In quiet she reposes: Ah! would that I did too.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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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.
