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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The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'
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'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will.
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I hated singing, I hated being on stage; I hated being in the Cranberries. I was constantly crying. I was going insane. I wanted to be a shopkeeper, a hairdresser, anything. I was so desperate to have a reality, friends, a regular, boring life. I missed that.
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Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.
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Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
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He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
