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Anatole France Quotes

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Wisdom Enthusiasm Indifference Folly

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

John C. McGinley

Good Character People Enough You

This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.

Robert Green Ingersoll

God Great Mind Grace World Free

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

Car Me Cinema Say Away Got

Every actor who's been around long enough knows that when something bad happens in this business, it's always for a reason. Really, the hardest part is waiting to find out what the reason is.

Business Waiting Enough Long Bad

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

Jonathan Glazer

Work Happy Thinking Doing Never

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Work Art Experience Better Human

I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of a cardboard box on the street where we lived in New York City. Great dog. We named her 'Marcella' after a Raggedy Ann character. She grew up with us.

Dog Character Great New York City

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.

Roads Believe Place I Believe Lead

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

Philip Zimbardo

Life Prison Understand Class Out

Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

Building Society Road Better Wealth

The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?

Time Yourself Step Choices Better

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

Hope History Missed Touch First Big

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