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.Andre Gide
Quotes to Explore
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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.
A. R. Rahman -
'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.
Hal Sparks -
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.
Hanya Yanagihara -
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.
Jack Nicholson -
Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
Parker Posey -
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
Nate Silver
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nagarjuna -
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.
Irving R. Kaufman -
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.
Yair Lapid -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
Kate Spade -
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya -
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.
Kacey Musgraves -
My childhood was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell -
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.
Vikas Swarup -
While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
Gavin Newsom -
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
Candice Bergen
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The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game
Rachel Cohn -
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
C. S. Lewis -
I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
Mahesh Babu -
I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.
Lizzie Armitstead -
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
Ba Jin -
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.
Andre Gide