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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'I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!...I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!''
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I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
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If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their fellows to think and behave according to the pattern that may fit the law-maker, or the imaginary ideals for which the legislation was fashioned, but which are ill-shaped for all real individuals who try to live under them.
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Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'
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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.
