J. M. G. Le Clezio Quotes

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 13, 1940

Topics

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I love pop culture. I love sports. I love entertainment. The fact that I get paid to be a part of this is like, 'Woah.'

Mauro Ranallo

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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Andy Rooney

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My wife, my daughter, and my son have my first loyalty and always will.

Michael Cohen

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No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

Alysia Reiner

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I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

Sting

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It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Siri Hustvedt

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A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.

Tony Campolo

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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.

Mary Harris Jones

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As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

Rumer Willis

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My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

Mike Johanns

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Trillions of dollars are being spent in the name of 'saving' the economy: bailouts, 'stimulus,' omnibus spending bills, budgets, government takeovers of the auto, health care and energy industries, all of which require ever more spending.

Monica Crowley

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If we had improved materials that could be produced cheaply and in large quantities, certainly the thermoelectrics industry could move forward more quickly.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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