Claude Bernard Quotes

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Claude Bernard

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Work
  • Live
  • Dream

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Community

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Death
  • Always
  • Sword

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Safe
  • Daring

• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Light
  • Beauty

• I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Life
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Believe
  • Want

• Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.

  

  John Updike

• Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Running
  • Alcohol

• Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Power
  • Science
  • Pride