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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In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.
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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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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
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If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.
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There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.
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Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.
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I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
