Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six

• There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Man
  • Changes

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • You
  • Saying

• I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Circumstances

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Jesus
  • Genius
  • Poet

• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

  

  Usher
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Band

• By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Time
  • Age
  • Travel

• Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Trade
  • Dollar

• My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!

  

  Otto Dix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Military

• I'm bored. I'm not unprofessional. I'm just bored.

  

  Josh Hopkins
  • Bored
  • Unprofessional

• Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Tree

• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Summer

• The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter how offensive. It's that we should lean toward greater tolerance for speech we dislike, and reserve our harshest penalties only for the worst offenders.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Free
  • Rest
  • Intelligent

• I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre