Jules Michelet Quotes
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
Quotes to Explore
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.
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Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)
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He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
