Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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• The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • High
  • Mad
  • Strange

• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Small

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • School
  • True
  • Strong

• Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Water
  • Ocean
  • Ripple

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
  • Sings

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• I'm anti-cheese in a salad.

  

  Larry David
  • Salad

• I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • History
  • Budget

• Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Power
  • Cinema
  • Improvisational

• Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • You
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Business
  • Democrat
  • Progressive

• The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

  

  Olof Palme
  • Good
  • God

• To all the unheard wisdom in the school yard: you think you're the right ones; you swear you're the charmed ones I'm sure. But how can you go on with such conviction? Who do you think you are when you question me?

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • School
  • Question
  • Wisdom

• One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Question

• Right now, we need to focus on who we are as a basketball club. I don't live with expectations, so there's nothing there I can say I expected. We're just out here kind of treading water as a basketball team right now. We're neither hot nor cold, neither fish nor fowl.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Live
  • Team
  • Water

• For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • Respect
  • Question
  • Rotten Places