Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I play golf - badly.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
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I don't have anything else to prove.
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For me, architecture is a social act.
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I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.
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I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.
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I love what I do, but I never want to OD on celebrity.
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I don't want to be the front for somebody else's creativity and sell that day in, day out.
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
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The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
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I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
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Your diet has to be number one. If you don't eat the right things, it doesn't matter who you are. Sometimes those foods treat people differently.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
