Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Ernest Renan

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• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

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• I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

  

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• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

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• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

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• I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

  

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• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  

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• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

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• At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

  

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• Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

  

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• She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

  

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• For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.

  

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• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  

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• I mostly read online - tech/VC blogs. I also enjoy the 'NY Times', 'Atlantic', 'New Yorker'.

  

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• Social messaging has become the defining app of the smartphone era. Social payments has been a natural extension of this phenomenon - it's going to be the locus of most communications activity.

  

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• Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.

  

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• I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

  

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• I always get asked for suggestions on what to get food-lover friends. While there are many gifts out there that a foodie would love, it's always good to do some research beforehand so you know you're getting a gift that will last.

  

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• We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about our bodies, but we need to focus on what we love - maybe it's a great smile, strong legs or curly hair?

  

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• Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

  

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• Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

  

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• It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

  

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• Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Seems