Moliere Quotes
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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Two lovers move in the crowd like a link of music,We press upon them, we hold them, and let them pass;A chord of music strikes us and straight we tremble;We tremble like wind-blown grass.
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I like rain, actually.
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The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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I have a shrink in New York and a shrink in Arizona, just in case. You never know when you will have a breakdown.
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Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
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If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
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I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
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I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
