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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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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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'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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I have not invented anything, only the night I have sensed, and in it the new which I called Suprematism.
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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
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Many players in the French squad play in the Premier League or have played in the Premier League, so I knew about the level.
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.
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He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
