Stephane Hessel Quotes

The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.

Stephane Hessel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: diplomat
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 20, 1917 - February 26, 2013

Topics

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Girls are sitting around talking about boys, right? Or complaining about boys, when they have their heart broken or whatever, and they need music for that, right? And they need music for that. So it's hard to find the right music. Not everyone has the right list or knows a DJ.

Jimmy Iovine

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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

Jesse Jackson

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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.

John Burroughs

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People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

John Darnielle

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I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

Luis von Ahn

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The reason I stay home more is because I realise that my blood pressure started going up.

Missy Elliott

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You have no control over the market. You can't predict where it will go, and you can't bring it back from the depths. What you can do is save more. Make sure you have cash on hand - an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses.

Jean Chatzky

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Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

Jared Kushner

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I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Diane Wakoski

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I'm my own favorite artist, but I love everybody's music.

Desiigner

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Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

Douglas Rushkoff

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So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.

Conrad Veidt

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