Rene Girard (René Noël Théophile Girard) Quotes
More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
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As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.
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It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.
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Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
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Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
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Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
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Com'è in proverbio, ognun corre a far legnaAll'arbore che 'l vento in terra getta.
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I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.
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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
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We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.
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Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
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More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
