Jules Romains Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
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In Kazakhstan the favorite hobbies are disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.
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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
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A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.
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I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
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What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
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If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
