Raymond Aron Quotes
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
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We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
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They have done so much day in and day out and I want to thank all my friends and family, particularly my mother, who was born before women could vote, and is watching her daughter on this stage tonight.
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I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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When you are young, you are a little naive.
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In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it was going to fall more, and a lot of people thought it was going to rebound. You just didn't know.
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I went to a performing arts school. I went to an audition for a musical, 'Les Miserables,' in the West End, and I got in, and my parents were like, 'Oh, you can sing?' So I kind of started singing properly when I was, like, seven.
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The thing is, it was never a decision for me to never return to acting.
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I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
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Al Gore, you've been a real inspiration. But a lot of other people who preach the global warming gospel aren't out to save the world. They're out to run it.
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I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.
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Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
