Michel Onfray Quotes
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
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I have a lot of diehard fans. Ace Frehley fans and Kiss fans are the greatest fans in the world.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.
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The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
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Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.
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What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Not enough people in this world are happy.
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'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'
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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
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The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.
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This has been an extraordinary election. But in one of God's unforeseen paths, this belatedly broken impasse can point us all to a new common ground, for its very closeness can serve to remind us that we are one people with a shared history and a shared destiny.
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
