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Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: swiss
Birth: September 27, 1821 - May 11, 1881

Topics

Life Nature Improvement Nothing Own

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Sonia Sotomayor

You Afraid Own Where Different Mine

If I've done anything intentional about my career, is that I really have not - I've chosen to try to do as many different types of things as possible. That's really what I like to do.

Career Done Intentional Possible Try

The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

Hope Black America Election Person

I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.

Community View Point Of View Looks

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

Say Image Things Controversial Still

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

People Learn You Play Nobody Never

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

If you really screw up, send roses.

Letitia Baldrige

Roses You Up Send Screw Really

Doesn't matter if you're sad or happy. I can be sad, you can be happy; it's all good. That's all I'm saying - let's just be us.

Good Sad Happy Be Happy Saying You

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it's way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Love Me Grow You Know Way

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

Mother Past Me Think Place She

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Love Parents Personal Real Existence

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