Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

Ernest Renan

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• I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Day
  • Media

• I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• 'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Difficult

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Money
  • Rest

• We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Smile
  • Jail
  • Criminals

• I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'

  

  Banks
  • Know
  • Line
  • Rascals

• During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • American
  • Trump

• Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• You can never get someplace physically until you've been there mentally.

  

  Wade Schalles
  • Wrestling

• Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Joy

• Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Desire
  • Imagination

• Happiness is being married to your best friend.

  

  Barbara Weeks
  • Happiness
  • Married
  • Best Friend

• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art critic-I could play the guy next door. I am the guy next door. I could play Catholic, Jewish, Protestant. As a matter of fact, when I did The Odd Couple, I would do it a different way each night. On Monday I'd be Jewish, Tuesday Italian, Wednesday Irish-German-and I would mix them up. I did that to amuse myself, and it always worked.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Play
  • Lawyer
  • Cop

• The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Disadvantage
  • Doubtful

• It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Creation
  • Now
  • Foot

• Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

  

  Rick Perlstein
  • Abortion
  • Reagan
  • However

• Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Creation
  • Nations
  • Historical