Marcel Pagnol Quotes
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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.
Orson Welles -
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 -
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali -
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor -
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Walter Bagehot -
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
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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.
Barbara Walters -
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson -
I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
Lacey Schwimmer -
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 -
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 -
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
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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.
Warren Farrell -
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 -
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 -
The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government.
Derrick Grayson
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When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.
Aimee Garcia -
Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.
Immanuel Kant -
You have to make the decision to lose weight in your head, not your stomach.
Jean Nidetch -
Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.
Peter Capaldi -
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
Paul Auster -
It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.
Marcel Pagnol