Georges Courteline Quotes
Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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You were born as the one you are.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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No one can guarantee success of a film.
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In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.
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Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
