- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things are more like today than they have ever been before.
- Blinded
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We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up with behavior that we shouldn't put up with.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pretended to be super-cool and not be bothered by things and play off any kind of heartache when I was younger, for sure.
- First
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When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
- English School
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My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.
- Men
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I shoot a lot of film - that's one of the things I try to do, and it's one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on 'Men of Honor.'
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
- Quickness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020