Ernest Dimnet Quotes
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I don't like to look typical.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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I'm a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.
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When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
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I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'
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I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.
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I clung to my vegan friends for more support than anyone because they helped guide me and made the transition much easier. My family was a bit skeptical, as they felt like I wasn't getting enough protein in my vegan diet.
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The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.
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Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.
