Andre Gide Quotes
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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Respect your haters. They're the only ones who think you're better than them.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me.
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If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
