J. M. G. Le Clezio Quotes
To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.J. M. G. Le Clezio
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk -
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
Wallace Shawn -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow -
I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
Kangana Ranaut
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
Sam Shepard -
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
Ian Mckellen -
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
Gareth Gates -
Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
Adam Mansbach -
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
Ted Turner -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel -
I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
Fawn Hall -
In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan -
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
Karl Pilkington
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard Shaw -
Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
Ben Carson -
It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.
Chris Stapleton -
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
Merton Miller -
To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
J. M. G. Le Clezio