Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

Bernard-Henri Levy

• Philosophy
• Warrior
• Dialogue
• Don't Believe

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• Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

  

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• Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.

  

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• Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

  

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• Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

  

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• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  

  Laura Mennell
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• The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

  

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• I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

  

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• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

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• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
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• We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

  

  Kabir Bedi
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• He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.

  

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• 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.

  

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• My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

  

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• It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

  

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• Sometimes in your life you need a little bit of a push.

  

  Alessandra Mastronardi
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• Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
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• I have to force myself to remember that if I can't do my job, people's stories won't get told, and that helps me to focus on the task at hand.

  

  Daniel Berehulak
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• At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

  

  Alicia Keys
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• By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

  

  Aimee Friedman
  • Believe
  • Anything
  • Asking

• I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Philosophy
  • Warrior
  • Dialogue