Marcel Achard Quotes
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.
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People see images now more than they see movies.
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
