Anatole France Quotes
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Gods always love the people who make em.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.
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Kadar died as a mass killer, and the Hungarian nation can't forget that.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.
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People ask me, 'Why do you drink diet soda?' So I can eat regular cake!
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Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
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The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan.
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
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I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.
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It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are painful or difficult or complicated. That's one thing that appeals to me very much about the novel form.
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To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
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J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
