Emile Souvestre Quotes

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

Emile Souvestre

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• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

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• The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.

  

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• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

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• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

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• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  

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• It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

  

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• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

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• Greed and lust I can understand, but I can't understand the values of definition and confinement. Definition destroys. Besides, there's nothing definite in this world.

  

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• For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

  

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• I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

  

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• To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

  

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• I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn't exist - life comes with bumps and grazes.

  

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• Carmakers do not lobby to remove safety regulations on their vehicles, but the NRA constantly lobbies to keep restrictions off deadly weapons.

  

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• I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

  

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• The first real gig I went to was Randy Crawford in 1980. Seeing a big star like that was just fantastic.

  

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• Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

  

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• Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.

  

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• Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

  

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• Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

  

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• Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.

  

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• At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

  

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• The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

  

  Emile Souvestre
  • Nature
  • Interest
  • Perform