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Pierre Bayle Quotes

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: November 18, 1647 - December 28, 1706

Topics

Book Thought Wit First Invention

All early entrepreneurs fall prey to the same problem, which is everyone believes that if you are super intense in the beginning, work long hours, that you can create something quickly and that entrepreneurship is almost something that happens overnight.

Work Beginning Problem You Early

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

John M. Grunsfeld

NASA Privilege Planet Off Member

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Work Me Baby Looking Horizon Year

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

Art Book Think You Say Kind

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

Juan Felipe Herrera

Dance Sometimes Fleeting Emotional

Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

Story Think True Myth Just I Think

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

Birthday Happy Me World You Cry

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

Sydney Schanberg

Change People Believe You Want Just

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

Good Children People Think Seem Lot

What is music for? It's to make you feel good.

Good Music Feel Good Feel You Make

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

Tobias Jesso, Jr.

Myself Moment Writing Better Try

We wish to firmly demonstrate to the world our determination to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in ivory. Poachers and illegal trades in ivory must know that their days are numbered.

Determination World Wish Know Days

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