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Michel Onfray Quotes

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: January 1, 1959

Topics

Ideas Youth World Philosophy Read

Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.

Teacher Best Job Me Lawyer Think

I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.

Love Things Where Been Changed

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

Good Dreams Service Happy People

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

Robert Sternberg

Good Teacher Words Learn Way May

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

Michael Jai White

Nature Effort Space Me Action Think

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

America Ferrera

Life Time New York Chaos Small You

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.

Man Rich Who Disgrace Dies

I've never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy's Prince Kutuzov.

Character Political Enough Powerful

I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.

Friends Human Always Audience Act

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.

Children Myself Paris See Europe

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Life Death Game Problems You Dead

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

Christian Slater

Myself People Quiet Shy Toys Kid

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