Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
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Climate change is a reality.
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I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
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I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.
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Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.
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When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.
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People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.
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But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.
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Sometimes my faith becomes more sensitive to how people feel, as opposed to what needs to be.
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In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
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In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
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Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.
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A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.
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Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.
