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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.'
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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.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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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.
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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.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I know what poverty is.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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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.
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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.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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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.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.
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We must listen to poets.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
