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Ernest Renan Quotes

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: February 28, 1823 - October 2, 1892

Topics

Life People Impossible Complain

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Government World Difference Ground

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

Problem Solution Transportation Rise

I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.

Hate School College Story Short

You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

Pressure Decisions You Want Real Us

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

Dance Cinema Legends Always Ability

Character is not created on the spot.

Character Created Spot

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

Singing Drummer Little Did Too

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Friendship Friend Father Peace Wife

In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.

People Stand Photography India Go

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

Christopher Walken

Good Home Live Effort People Calm

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Change Game Injuries You Way

I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.

Believe You Looks Go Terrorism See

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