Edmond de Goncourt Quotes
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.
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I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
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Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
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Essentially I am interested in this world, in this life, not in some other world or future life. Whether there is such a thing as soul, or whether there is survival after death or not, I do not know; and important as these questions are, they do not trouble me the least.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
