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Somebody told me I should put...

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.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

A few great minds are enough ...

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

The books one has written in ...

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

The least one can say of powe...

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

Already at the origin of the ...

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

It may offend us to hear our ...

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

It is sometimes important for...

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

When a scientist is ahead of ...

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

In order to remain true to on...

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

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

To say of men that they are b...

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

One kills a man, one is an as...

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

Never feel remorse for what y...

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

I should have no use for a pa...

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

I don't judge a regime by the...

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

In politics, yesterday's lie ...

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

I still understand a few word...

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

God, that dumping ground of o...

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

Nothing is more admirable tha...

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

A body of work such as Pasteu...

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.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

Hatred, for the man who is no...

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Jean Rostand 135 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....