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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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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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 think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.
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If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
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I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.
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A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.
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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.
