Simone Weil (Simone Adolphine Weil) Quotes
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.Simone Weil
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar -
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones -
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky -
I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
Damian Lewis -
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
Famke Janssen -
Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
Warren Beatty
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
Irvine Welsh -
The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan -
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
Dan Farmer -
A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
Fergus Henderson
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
Aaron Sorkin -
Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person.
Owain Yeoman -
Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
Olivier Megaton -
I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
Taylor Swift -
'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
Randall Park -
I'd like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people - that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy.
Andre Leon Talley
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The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time
Robert Zoellick -
We would like to see humanitarian aid arriving without difficulty from the European Union ... the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe should be able to enter and play their role.
Javier Solana -
The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
Hamilton Jordan -
There shall be no slavery of the mind.
Victor Hugo -
As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.
Lao Tzu -
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil