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 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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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.
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In friendship there is nothing more outstanding than faithfulness, which seems to be both the nurse and guardian of friendship.
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Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.
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I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.
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C'est d'actes et non d'idées que vivent les peuples.
