Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

Ernest Renan

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• I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

  

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• I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

  

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• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

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• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  

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  • People
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• Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.

  

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• In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

  

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• 'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'

  

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• Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

  

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• As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

  

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• The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

  

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• If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.

  

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• Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.

  

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• We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

  

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• I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.

  

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• My problem is with intimacy. That's where I have my biggest problems.

  

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• I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

  

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• I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticides. So I turned to bear, caribou, venison, hippopotamus, buffalo, elk and moose. Taste-wise, buffalo and elk are tied for first. Not gamy, and loaded with protein. And very expensive, I might add.

  

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• Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

  

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• We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

  

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• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

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• When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America.

  

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• Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Enemy