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Anatole France Quotes

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924

Topics

Wisdom Reflection Joy Irony Gaiety

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Father Me Gift Greatest Gift Person

I feel more comfortable performing when I'm wearing something crazy. I grew up in the '90s, so I love a choker and platform shoes like the Spice Girls wore.

Love Shoes Crazy Feel Spice More

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

Me Direction Wrong Over Conviction

Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.

Good Food Service Experience Want

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

Comedians Favorite Themselves Onstage

You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

Best School People Chef World You

The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want to grow it, and of course that will cost more.

Me Key Grow Year Want Run

I don't think a man should try to suppress a woman just because he's married to her.

Lisa Vanderpump

Woman Man Think Just Because Try He

Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Experience White Down New Knife She

Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals.

Best School Me Learn Way Going

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

History Culture Religion Way Social

The reality of getting married, it really changed things into something beautiful. There was transformation.

Beautiful Transformation Reality

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