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Stephane Hessel Quotes

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

Stephane Hessel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Optimism Luck Bring Call

I did a pilot for Fox years ago called 'Faceless,' with Sean Bean. I always thought it was such a cool show because it was really raw. I thought we were pushing it. This was back at a time before there was the 'cable standard.'

Time Cool Thought Back Pilot Fox

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

Dangerous More Nuclear Weapons Far

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.

Maximilian Schell

Bed Young Actor First Apartment

I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.

Angela Ruggiero

Memories Past Me Team Hockey Feel

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.

Money Yellow Night Early Down Train

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

Business Vision Government Wealth

If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition of wearable computing can be kind of fuzzy itself. Thousands of years ago, in China, people would wear an abacus around their neck - that, in one sense, was a wearable computer.

Father History Be Kind People World

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.

Loyalty Product Sell Prices Dropping

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

Work Good Poetry People Reading Why

I'm pretty athletic, but I'm not very strong.

Strong Pretty Athletic Very

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

Music Science Brother Ideas Sister

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

Mother Church Year Christmas She

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