Patrick Modiano Quotes

The sign had been put up out of suspicion and a guilty conscience: 'Military zone. Filming or photography prohibited'.

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• Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Ego
  • Luxury

• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • See
  • Go
  • Easier

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Distance
  • Potential
  • Horizon

• The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Business
  • Always

• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
  • Love
  • Today
  • Black

• After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Work
  • Education
  • Health

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Very

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Social

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Tea

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Creative

• I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Strong

• Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year, and it's Ed Begley Jr.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Barack Obama
  • Magazine

• I try to figure out how much of the character I can find in myself because you don't want to get outside of your skill-set.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Character

• I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my dad, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, forty thousand sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what else was out there.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Dad

• Your circumstance is entirely hypothetical, and I'm quite clear it won't arise.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Circumstance
  • Arise
  • Hypocritical

• The sign had been put up out of suspicion and a guilty conscience: 'Military zone. Filming or photography prohibited'.

  

  Patrick Modiano
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