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Joseph Joubert Quotes

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: May 7, 1754 - May 4, 1824

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People Hide Create Shadows Profound

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Home Myself Writing Situation Days

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

Time Challenge Day People Look Play

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

Better Elections Got Voter Percent

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

Opportunity Me Actor Lead Star Just

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good Home Good Things You Go Know

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

Justice Young Why Understand Fair

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.

Time Gardening Famous Long Back

Courage means standing next to someone you don't always agree with for the betterment of the country.

Courage Someone You Country Always

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Mikhail Lermontov

Success Happy People Achieve Glory

I don't like competition in relationships.

Competition Relationships Like

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

Morning Wait Remember Write Up Get

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination.

Jordan Peterson

Education Identity Think Morality

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