We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.


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When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
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Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY
Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO
Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN
I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN
And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN
I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN
Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT
I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER
When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER
Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
My trade and art is to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE