Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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We played the games that people playWe made our mistakes along the way.Somehow I know deep in my heartYou needed me.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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I never hugged him, I bombed him.
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Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.
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If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.
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I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
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We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
