Jules Romains Quotes
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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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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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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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Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.
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From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.
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You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
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If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
