Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes

Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

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• Revolution
• Unpunished
• Magic Virtue

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  • Up
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• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

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• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

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• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

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• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

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• I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

  

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• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

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  • People
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• There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.

  

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• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

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  • Sleep
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• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

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• If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

  

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• For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.

  

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• There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

  

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• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

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  • People
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• We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

  

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  • Power
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  • Revolution
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• Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Power
  • Revolution
  • Unpunished