Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Love
  • Spoiled

• The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Job
  • Celebrity
  • Fame

• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Ancestors

• Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Different
  • Politics
  • Ethics

• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
  • Excess
  • Giant

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Father
  • Career
  • Choices

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Mother
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Where
  • Commerce

• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Fear

• Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Values
  • Wealth
  • Capitalism

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • People
  • True
  • Change

• Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Sewing

• My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Sweet
  • Prom

• Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

  

  John Milton
  • Great
  • Live
  • Happy

• The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Science

• Others of graver mien; behold, adorn'dWith holy ensigns, how sublime they move,And bending oft their sanctimonious eyesTake homage of the simple-minded throng;Ambassadors of heaven!

  

  Mark Akenside
  • Simple
  • Heaven

• Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Great
  • Men