Denis Diderot Quotes

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784

Topics

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I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

Jimmi Simpson

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I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

Joe Lieberman

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The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

John Fleming

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I achieved my personal dream and completed my transition to be able to live life as a woman.

Andreja Pejic

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Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we're women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We've been feeling the inequality; we've been struggling with pay equality or whatever it is, or sexism in sports.

Megan Rapinoe

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Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.

John Leeson

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When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.

Robert Stromberg

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Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.

Anna Kaiser

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I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

John Rocha

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You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.

Lucille Ball

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When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.

Louis Leterrier

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I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

Josh Hutcherson

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