Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
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Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.
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I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good...tumble dry."-Eve Rosser
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I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
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When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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J. J. Abrams is amazing.
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A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
