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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Wisdom Knowledge Men Wise Cannot

As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.

Dreams Dare Say Sailor Being Hopes

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

Love Business Writing Book Wish Run

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

John Larroquette

People Doing You Say Ask Degree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Leader Business Responsibility You

Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.

Person Conservative Pretty Decent He

I don't really have friends in general. I never have. I didn't go to college and didn't have friends in high school.

School College High School Friends

In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time.

Time Walk You Nice Kind Away

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.

Creative You Lucky Anybody Very

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Time Man Child Old Man Old Only

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

Father Son Myself I Am Sometimes Am

I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me.

If I see someone I think is in a better position than me, it is better for me to give the ball. Now I shoot more at goal. When I was young, they sometimes said to me, 'You need to shoot more. You try to give it too much.' It is something that I learned. To try to take the best option.

Kevin De Bruyne

Best Me Think Better Someone Goal

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