Raymond Aron Quotes

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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Judgment
  • Errors
  • Failures

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Live
  • Family

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Imagination

• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • More
  • Dangerous
  • Lighthouse

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Myself

• If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Young
  • Go
  • Cinema

• For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Hero
  • Genius

• Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Understand
  • Accept

• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Soul
  • Education

• This writing distinctly about the kite seems to be my destiny, because among the first recollections of my infancy, it seemed to me that, as I was in my cradle, a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Writing
  • Destiny

• Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

  

  William Golding
  • Writing
  • Creatures
  • Enormous

• My trainer ensures I eat right and balance out in between my hectic shoot schedule.

  

  Karan Patel
  • Balance

• In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

  

  Raymond Aron
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