Bernard Kouchner Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry - something more concrete and out of time.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
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There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.
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I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.
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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
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As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.
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'Billy on the Street' is the hardest thing that I will ever do.
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One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.
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Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
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When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.
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Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
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We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
