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Andre Maurois Quotes

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: July 26, 1885 - October 9, 1967

Topics

Appreciate Others Us Who Like Those

I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami in their lifetimes. I think it is on the same level as seeing the pyramids in Giza for many people. But, Miami is slippery: It is a place that is always that distant orgiastic green light while also being a hot, tropical, and very real place.

Light Travel People Green World

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads.

Words People Believe Fall Touch

Traditional hackathons are fun and focused on skill and competition, but we believe that events which focus on the positive social impact of technology engage a wider and more diverse set of participants.

Positive Technology Focus Fun Impact

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

Johannes P. Muller

Quality Consciousness Excited Cause

I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.

Me Singing I Can Wrong Get Sing

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

Michael E. Mann

Rain Smoking Down Pollution Movement

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

Time Want Heroes Because Our Time

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

Practice Little Things Strong You

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

Practice Speak You Play Young Poet

My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.'

Mary Steenburgen

Son Night Movies Group Two Sit

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

Montel Williams

Start American Tolerance Be Careful

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

Think Worry You Know Over Something

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