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.

Emile Chartier

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• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

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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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• We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

  

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• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  

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• The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.

  

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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.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Courage
  • Survive
  • Motives