Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
Laura Moser
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
Pamela Sargent
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
Anton Zaslavski
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
Vicki Lawrence
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
Walter Savage Landor
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
Dan Pink
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.
Karen Finerman
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz
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Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
Valorie Curry
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The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
Kapil Sibal
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
Yani Tseng
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I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.
Lamar Odom
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
Ouida
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
Samuel Beckett
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As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
Tony Blair
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
Jacob deGrom
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I trust a good deal to common fame, as we all must. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,
But O, he lives in the moony light!
I thought to find Love in the heat of day,
But sweet Love is the comforter of night.
William Blake
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Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
Jean-Paul Sartre
