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Jean Rostand Quotes

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: french
Birth: October 30, 1894 - September 4, 1977

Topics

Understand Modesty Over Presence Who

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

Live Culture Cool Place Used Shrimp

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

Work Respect Treat Partnership Gay

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

Work I Am Research Sunday Person

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

Man Smart Stupid Clever Real Senses

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

Learning Money People Looking You

When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.

Ocean Me Old Him Years Bottle

American histories were the same; they had these mad ideas about how Parliament worked, or what people really meant when they said A, B, or C. All my life, I felt simultaneously deracinated and rooted in both places, and now it's my greatest strength: I'm culturally bilingual.

Life Strength People Ideas American

I've read the Bible before, a couple of times cover to cover.

Bible Read Cover Before Couple

I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.

People Me Old Pretty Guy Different

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.

Good Father Mother Age Childhood

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

Start Journalism Labor Blood Got

In the U.S., my whole life, I felt like I had to be the best and score more goals and run with more fitness so I could be the one in the limelight. I think that when I went to Sweden, I found the joy of being part of a team and contributing to everybody's success.

Life Success Goals Fitness Best Joy

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