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Anatole France Quotes

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sleep Equality Law Face Bridges

I love getting to work with the stunt coordinator. It's like choreography, like a dance.

Jessica Stroup

Work Love Dance Choreography Stunt

I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead.

Jessica Brown Findlay

Love Beautiful Me Thought Gay Dead

Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.

Robert Kyncl

Great People Writing Bridges Tools

A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair.

John Waters

Time Hair Rich Someone Too Much Now

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

Sonny Rollins

Music Musicians Dignity Person Jazz

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

Sitting Bull

Man Broken Red Treaty Kept Whites

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Tracy Chapman

Religion Go Know Anything Sure Far

The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's imperative we show love for the Chinese.

Monique Roffey

Love Country Person China Destroyed

It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with.

Jonathan Dee

Live Power Rest Feel You Celebrity

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

Dick York

Pain Me Waves Long Back Down

I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early.

Chris Cornell

Time Walk Early Down Strange Hard

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

Christopher Walken

Never Honest To Be Honest Ambitious