Emile Chartier Quotes
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
Quotes to Explore
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
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'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'
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'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'
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One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.
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One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
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We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
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The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.
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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.
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One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
