Andre Gide Quotes

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Mom

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Me
  • Nice
  • More

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Being

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Good
  • Art
  • Power

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Painting
  • Summer
  • Grandmother

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
  • Love
  • Growing

• Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Humanity

• My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Up
  • Car

• Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • True
  • Opinion
  • Philosophical

• I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

  

  Muhammad Yunus
  • People
  • Business
  • Entrepreneur

• How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?"

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Judging
  • Conversation

• Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

  

  Andre Gide
  • God
  • Men
  • Interesting