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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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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Faith is important to me.
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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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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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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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In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
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The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
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It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
