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

• I've got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I'll make it extremely hard.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • People

• Every work of art unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Ideology

• People here cannot conceive of worlds where dæmons are a silent voice in the mind and no more. Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?

  

  Philip Pullman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?

  

  Carlos Alomar
  • Way
  • Frozen

• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• 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