Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
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That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
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Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.
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Life is a jest;Take the delight of it.Laughter is best;Sing through the night of it.Swiftly the tearAnd the hurt and the ache of itFind us down here;Life must be what we make of it.
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To be human is to be suspended between danger and opportunity. ...The challenge of life is to choose wisely, from the enormous number of possible dangers, what's worth worrying about. It is also about choosing, from all the opportunities... always in the face of incomplete knowledge of the consequences.
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And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.
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Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
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How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.
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I watched a rerun on television of a 1960s comedy programme called 'Mr Ed', which was about a talking horse. Judging by the quality of the jokes, I would guess that Mr Ed wrote his own material.
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Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.
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To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
