Jean Giraudoux Quotes

I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.

Jean Giraudoux

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944

Topics

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While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

Jerry Saltz

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It's hard lovin' folks sometimes, isn't it?

Anderson East

SometimesHardFolks

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

John Oates

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It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.

Merle Haggard

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If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations.

Sonya Walger

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Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National's role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.

Lloyd Dorfman

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We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Jaron Lanier

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It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

Jonathan Ames

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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

Don Rickles

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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Pythagoras

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My brother and I would wrestle in my grandparents' living room; that was our spot.

Seth Rollins

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What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

James Nesbitt

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