Moliere Quotes

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

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• Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Real
  • Free

• I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • American
  • Way
  • Medical

• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Judge
  • Songs
  • Boss

• It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Want
  • Know
  • Thought

• Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Circle

• I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Money
  • Fashion

• 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Effect

• I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

  

  Rachel True
  • Think
  • Follower
  • Frankly

• If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • She
  • Job
  • Look

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Generation
  • Passionate
  • Empowering

• I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • I Can
  • Breath
  • Hold

• I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Time
  • Good
  • Girl

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Marriage
  • Eye
  • Gay

• Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.

  

  Grace Dell Nichols
  • Important
  • Convinced
  • Limitation

• I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Book
  • First
  • Author

• When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Everything
  • Flying

• It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

  

  Moliere
  • Doing
  • Responsible