Isabelle Adjani Quotes

If I don't work very often, it's because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full.

Isabelle Adjani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: June 27, 1955

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I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Jimmy Carter

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It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.

John Niven

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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

Robert Sternberg

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We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

Andy Grove

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'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

Michael Franti

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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Jules Verne

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I'm a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you're accusing them of not thinking.

Jordan Peele

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I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!

Connor Paolo

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My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

Corey Feldman

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No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

Boman Irani

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