Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.Bernard-Henri Levy
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Yoshihiko Noda -
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs -
Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
Laura Dern -
I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
Taiye Selasi -
When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
Park Chan-wook -
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
Danica Patrick -
I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon -
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
Taylor Caldwell -
The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.
Vik Muniz -
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. Housman -
It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
Safra A. Catz
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A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
Hansika Motwani -
The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
Dan Bartlett -
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
Eddie Izzard -
For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.
Kangana Ranaut
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
Gail Collins -
There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.
Lisa Ling -
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Karen Armstrong -
I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
Hanya Yanagihara -
The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.
Bernard-Henri Levy