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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• Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

  

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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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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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.

  

  Ed Harris
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• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.

  

  Dak Prescott
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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.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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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.

  

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

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Man
  • You
  • Realize

• 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.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Age
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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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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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.

  

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

  

  Christine Tsai

• 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.

  

  Jeremy Allaire

• 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.

  

  Bruno Bettelheim
  • Children
  • True
  • Disappointment

• 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.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
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• Cats, it turns out, are even less fond of being dunked in water than Shitsus.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Water

• I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
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• As for the Messiah, it is, like Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, one of those rare works that appeal immediately to everyone, and yet is indisputably a masterpiece of the highest order.

  

  Kenneth Clark

• If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
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• Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.

  

  Marshall Brickman
  • Music
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• One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • People
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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