Alain Finkielkraut Quotes

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Alain Finkielkraut

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• I have worked with some great directors.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Great
  • Directors
  • Some

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • American
  • Dream
  • Logic

• Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Long
  • Guy

• I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Sound

• I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Night
  • Rock
  • Revolution

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.

  

  Kate Spade
  • She
  • Mother
  • Age

• Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Character
  • Play
  • Story

• It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label 'Lebanese,' preferring the less restrictive 'Levantine' designation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Power
  • Vision

• And so to bed.

  

  Samuel Pepys

• I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me.

  

  Ben Carson

• Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Night
  • Hand
  • Sales

• A No. 1 record is hard to come by.

  

  Josh Turner

• I would never run for any office or government position. I'm not into it.

  

  Chance The Rapper

• I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so non-intrusive. But, I am so sick of hair on my face and on my head. Because I'm not a really hairy guy, I'm not really used to it.

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • World
  • Guy
  • Growing

• I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Dog

• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

  

  Chanakya
  • People
  • Small
  • Sleep

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Night

• Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

  

  Alain Finkielkraut
  • Dog
  • Companion
  • Inheritance