Anatole France Quotes

On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.

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• Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Deserve
  • Citizens

• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Feet
  • Clean

• Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Character
  • Movies
  • Young

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Test

• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Happy
  • Storm
  • Passed

• I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Know
  • Morning
  • Blearily

• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Work
  • Men
  • Man

• I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Think
  • Living

• I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Why
  • Know
  • Jesus

• I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Country
  • Real
  • Money

• When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Trust
  • Leave

• When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Singing
  • Goal
  • Professional

• The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Want
  • Saying

• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Lead

• Authors worry. We worry about writing. Worry about our editors, our agents, our reviews, and our readers. We worry about everything, including all forms of social media including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and personal websites.

  

  David Macinnis Gill
  • Writing
  • Worry

• You've got to find it the path to wealth on your own...No one else can find it for you.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Find
  • Wealth

• In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Church
  • Christian

• I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Spiritual

• On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.

  

  Anatole France