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 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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Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge...
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But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.
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The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
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I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.
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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.
