Stephane Hessel (Stéphane Frédéric Hessel) Quotes
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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Tread the track of life with utmost caution. But let this not deter you from taking giant leaps towards your goals. Excessive caution may reduce your speed to move ahead in life.
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Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.
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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
