Eric Rohmer Quotes
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I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
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If you love what you do, it's not work.
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I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
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In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
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I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.
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I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
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All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!
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The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.
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We are doing exactly what we need to do to be successful in the social and economic transformation of the French model.
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The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
