Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes

No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Verdict
  • Conclusive

• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Parents
  • Dad
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• My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Emotions
  • Filmmaking

• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Age

• I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Admire

• We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Always
  • Everybody
  • Grass

• I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hair
  • Weird
  • Year

• Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Laugh
  • Volume
  • Subway

• When you make a promise, keep it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Promise
  • Make

• I'm talkin to you, sucka nigga you can stunt all ya wanna stuntI know you won't bust a gun, yeah punk-I'm talkin to youFuck nigga, you can hate all you wanna hateI know you a fake, make no mistake bitch, I'm talkin to you

  

  T.I.
  • Hate
  • Mistake
  • Gun

• To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Hand

• They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

  

  Arundhati Roy

• Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Die

• We've got a major problem, we've got a divide between the left, which understands how vital Hollywood and propaganda in communications is, and a conservative movement that thinks "no, we're the ones who are going to solve all the issues in America, we're congressmen, how could you not trust us?".

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Problem

• To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Great
  • Together
  • Amazing

• I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • Work
  • House

• People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • People
  • Best
  • Politics

• Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • End
  • Refuse

• No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • War
  • Attention
  • Politics