Augustin-Jean Fresnel Quotes
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I love working with women.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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The only thing that was sort of Asian as a role model was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.
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My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
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And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
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Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'
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You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
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Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.
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Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
