Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.
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People have to evolve.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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Square meals often make round people.
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
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We are not all the same; we don't think alike; and we have the right to openly express those differences in ways that, hopefully, will contribute to our community's welfare.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.
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Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.
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One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
