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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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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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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I don't know if I'd call either of them restless. Maybe hyperactive about some things. Anyway, I think as long as your soul is still attached to your body, it's impossible for it to be restless. I think you go where your spirit takes you.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!
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If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.
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A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
