Antoine Rivarol Quotes

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

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• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

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• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

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• You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

  

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• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

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• What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

  

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• That's hot.

  

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• I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.

  

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• Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

  

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• Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

  

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• I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

  

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• I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity with better diversity in TV shows, especially for Asian actors. I agree with that 100 per cent.

  

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• It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

  

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• That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

  

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• But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

  

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• If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago...

  

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• You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

  

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• At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.

  

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• Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

  

  Antoine Rivarol
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