Anatole France Quotes

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EducationMemoryYouKnowCommitted

Robert Kirkman can't bear it when I wear flip-flops. He takes pictures of my flip-flops and keeps sending them to me, like, 'What are you doing? Rick Grimes is not a flip-flop kind of guy.'

Andrew Lincoln

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Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.

Max Levchin

PeopleBelieveFinancialImpactYou

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Jeb Bush

FailurePressureMediocrityUnions

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

Stephen Ambrose

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Truman Capote

FriendshipFriendsYouPrettyJust

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

Michelle Hunziker

FatherMotherSchoolParentsLuck

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

Michael Reagan

ServiceMeThoughtHouseProtect

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

Michael Korda

FuturePastAmazingIgnorePredict

My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings.

Jay London

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I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.

Diplo

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We all want to win more, but it's all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

DJ Khaled

LifeBlessedWinBlessingsWant

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

Christie Hefner

WorldSexyYouKnowAwayWould

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