Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Jodi Rell

My OwnCancerOwnBeenMortality

I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I had 'The Flash' Underoos.

Jesse L. Martin

BookKidLittleGuyComic BookKnew

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

Jesse Eisenberg

CharacterMyselfFocusYourselfFun

When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

Andrew Lau

LovePushLoseGoWantMood

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

Maurice White

AlwaysDaysBeingIdeaYoungest

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Stephen Gardiner

TodayArchitectureFlexibilityMost

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

Tony Abbott

LifeGreatPeopleThinkInjustice

'Minecraft' is a game about creation, yes. But it is just as much a game about secret knowledge.

Robin Sloan

KnowledgeGameCreationSecretYes

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

FamilyAgeCharacterOpinionStream

I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

Michael Vartan

IdiotLookGuyOffJustPull

I had a nice life. It had its challenges like anybody's life, I guess.

Lorelei Linklater

LifeChallengesNiceLikeAnybody

The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'

Desiigner

WorkGreatnessMeCrazyWork Ethic

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