#ere

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#handed #me #nothing #ordeal #these

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about. ↗

— Richard Ford

#dream #even #forward #interesting #leave

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment. ↗

— Tom Ford

#discouraged #environment #had #i #liberal

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. ↗

— Tom Ford

#great #great changes #politically #responsible #socially

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be. ↗

— George Foreman

#choose #discovered #hardest #i #nature

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#any #audience #because #broadway #broadway shows

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. ↗

— Milos Forman

#afford #also #anything #brilliant #communist

There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence. ↗

— Guy Forget

#always #andre #beating #because #defence

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig. ↗

— Milos Forman

#czechs #doing #drowning #even #grabbing

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#conductors #deal #gone #great #great deal