Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
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I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.
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It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.
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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
