Jean Cocteau Quotes

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

Jean Cocteau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963

Topics

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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.

John Burroughs

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The serious problems facing the world... will only be solved if women have a seat at the table and are listened to as to what is required. These issues will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families and their global and local communities.

Jenny Shipley

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I encourage the residents of Houston County to let their elected representatives know that closing the Dothan Trooper Post is unacceptable.

Robert J. Bentley

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I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

Jeff MacNelly

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When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.

Steve McFadden

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I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

Tom Hardy

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It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'

Tom Hardy

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So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

Robert Barclay

PowerMenNegativeWillFirstHold

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

Mary Douglas

I AmWillMoreReligionsOrganized

I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.

Domhnall Gleeson

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I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

Christine Baranski

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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Bryant H. McGill

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