Michel Legrand Quotes
"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"
Quotes to Explore
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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"The more I live, the more I learn The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know"
