Jean Alesi Quotes

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Jean Alesi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: driver
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 11, 1964

Topics

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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Robert Orben

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I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

Jeffrey R. Immelt

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I took a long period off to be a mom.

Mia Farrow

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I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.

Stephen Merchant

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The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

Dick Cheney

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I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

Columbus Short

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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Phyllis Diller

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I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

Susan Orlean

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

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I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

Tom Bissell

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I went to a Jesuit boys high school, Rockhurst High School.

Tim Kaine

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