Anatole France Quotes
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
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The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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Being known for musicals is a great thing.
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You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.
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Morals are three-quarters manners.
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There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
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I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
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We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
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Now she is like everyone else.
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Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
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Si 50 millions de personnes disent une bêtise, c'est quand même une bêtise.
