Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
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We feel much sorrow for you, the elm tree had said. But what kind of sorrow-a real and sincere sorrow, or the superficial and pedantic sorrow of the immortal for a frail and flickering creature that was about to die?
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On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.
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I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
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I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.
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I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
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When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
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I'm from all over the Northeast.
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I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.
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Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
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Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
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The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
