Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 19
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We are all born marked for evil.
Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.
I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.
I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
I take a lot of pride in being healthy.
At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
Creating a flexible working culture is about trust. How much can your employees rely on each other to get the job done without the benefit of supervision?
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'
In 90 minutes, anything can happen.
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
The secret of success is sincerity.
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
To love beauty is to see light.
It takes time and experience to make a person.
The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.
We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.
When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.
To teach is to learn twice.
I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.
Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.
We are not afraid to be a bit different, to make shades that are bold.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
Blockchain is really exciting technology because it's actually providing both transparency but also agility in a contractual relationship that any organization should have.
My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.
It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.
The key to my collections is sensuality.
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.
The Italian one is the toughest league of all for the attackers.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
I've experienced all the food and restaurants in New Orleans. I've been doing a bit of touristing when I have the day off, just walking in the French Quarter. To me, it's very, very surprising how people are so friendly. But no, it's very different from Paris.
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.
The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.
