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.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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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.
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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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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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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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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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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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As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.
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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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Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
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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.
