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Voltaire Quotes

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Topics

History Nothing More Misfortunes

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

Music Truth Used Film Mine Some

The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

Best End You Place Now Run

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Science Century Exciting Most Thing

It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.

Smile Sad Losing Down Will Boyish

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

Troian Bellisario

Good World Opportunities Difficult

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

Power Man Constitution Separation

People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.

Money Together People City Society

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

Freedom People Be True Comfort Know

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

Douglas Coupland

Name Dead Quick Ten Redheads

When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.

Dreams Focus People Me Crazy You

When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.

Work Car Guitar Doing You Stop

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Women Words Thrive Edgy Never Curse

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