Francois Nars Quotes

My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting.

Francois Nars

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BeautyWomenCuteUglyInteresting

We're a whole culture of people who have a really hard time seeing beyond themselves.

Jill Soloway

TimeCulturePeopleSeeingBeyond

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

John Amery

StepMeForwardBetterDoingYou

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

John F. Kennedy

MeIdeasLongTigerWallSkin

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

Andrew Shue

TeenParentsYouSaidImportant

The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?

Robert Pozen

QualityAmericanMoviesNetflixYes

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, 'Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?'

Ang Lee

LifeRememberYearYouHollywood

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Mencius

PeaceMindHandPropertySecure

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Stephen Ambrose

WarOptimismWorldColdAtomic Bomb

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Stendhal

DistanceAlwaysYearsFiftyImitate

Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.

Rudolf Steiner

LiveSocietyFreeNeedSocial

I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting problem in the theater. How else do you get Oedipus? That's the first cheating in the theater.

Mike Nichols

InterestingCheatingProblemYouGet

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

Mikaela Shiffrin

ParentsSkiingWinningWorldEnough

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