Ernest Legouve Quotes
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
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We played the games that people playWe made our mistakes along the way.Somehow I know deep in my heartYou needed me.
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
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I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him.
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I'm a very ambitious person. I've been like this from a very young age. As early as 12 years old, I used to have panic attacks because I needed to know my life plan.
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If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
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Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.
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I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!
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You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.
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If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
