Georges Bidault Quotes
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
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The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population that followed World War II. By this account, it's with the introduction of modern technologies—turbines, railroads, chainsaws—that humans became a world-altering force. But the megafauna extinction suggests otherwise. Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever did.
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I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
