Anatole France Quotes
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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I don't have a gym membership. I usually do a bit of basic yoga or stretches at home or in my dressing room before the show. I've done plank for 60 seconds almost every day since 2009, when I had to wear a bikini onstage in 'South Pacific.'
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
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ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.
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The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
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There are certain stories that remind you of the moral purpose that originally drew you to become a reporter.
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If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
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It is ill to praise, and worse to reprimand in matters that you do not understand.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; only a fool has no fear. Courage is seeing the fear and continuing to proceed.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
