Marcel Pagnol Quotes
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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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.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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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.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.
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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?
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Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
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People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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My main concern is to protect people from detriment.
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During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.
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It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.
