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Jean Rostand Quotes: It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
         

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.


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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.



A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.



We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.



My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.



Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.



Kill one man, and you are murderer.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.



Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.



To be adult is to be alone.

To be adult is to be alone.



A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.



In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.





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But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.



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Only as high as I reach can I growOnly as far as I seek can I goOnly as deep as I look can I seeOnly as much as I dream can I be



Don't let anybody try to change who you are, because at the end of the day, you are the one who must live with yourself.

Don't let anybody try to change who you are, because at the end of the day, you are the one who must live with yourself.



Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens then everybody disagrees.



The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.



I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.



If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.



Infinitely more taboos, on television.

Infinitely more taboos, on television.



As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this.

As a matter of fact, there is no trace of ill-health in Me. I am always healthy. Not only today, till 96 years I will be like this.



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I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.




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