Marcel Pagnol Quotes

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

Marcel Pagnol

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• Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Gossip
  • Bears
  • Flavor

• Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Me
  • Saint
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• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Business
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Like
  • Teeth
  • Divided

• Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Control

• A week is a long time in politics.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Politics

• I like having curves - I'm proud of them!

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Proud
  • Like
  • Curves

• Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Happy
  • Light
  • Green

• Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Man
  • Car
  • Voice

• In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Thinking
  • Society

• The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • King

• Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu

• Be just before you're generous.

  

  Eliza Haywood

• God helps those who help themselves.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • God
  • Help

• I want to buy pizza, but my players don't want pizza; maybe they don't love pizza. Because I said when we make a clean sheet, I will buy everybody a pizza. Maybe they wait until I say, 'Okay, a good dinner.' I told them, the clean sheet, I buy everybody a pizza. I think they wait until I improve my offer: 'Okay, a pizza and a hot dog.'

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Pizza

• It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

  

  Shania Twain

• I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Artist
  • Admire
  • Queens

• That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality

• It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

  

  Marcel Pagnol