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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Michel de Montaigne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

Topics

People Too Much Civility Courtesy

My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.

Life My Life Career Years Different

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

Water Thinking America You Clean

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

Place Meet Out Where Indians Twenty

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Life Best Creative Me My Life Apple

How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?

Past War Be True True Over Evolve

I heard during our label-searching that some labels hire statisticians instead of A&R people. They'll reach out to the bands that will statistically perform best monetarily instead of going out to shows and having an opinion on which music is good or bad.

Good Music Best People Opinion Bad

A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.

People Forget Extraordinary Naked

People ask me if I'm worried that I'm going to be stuck in Miranda forever. I'm not, because how could I complain about what I've been given?

Colleen Ballinger

People Me Ask Complain Going Been

It's important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go.

Come And Go Go Important Girlfriends

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

Words Religion Law Book Church Pen

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

Scotty McCreery

Game You New Know Now Fresh

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

Kenneth Langone

Connection Want Group Never Nation

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