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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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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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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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
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If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
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You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.
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Country music is about new love and it's about old love.
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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.
