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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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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If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there.
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I have a great family and great friends, and I think that they'll keep me grounded.
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With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
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My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18)
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God grants an easy death only to the just.
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
