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.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• 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?

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • People
  • Day
  • Band

• I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Know
  • Me
  • Loved

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• 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.'

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Weird

• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Would
  • Fragrance
  • Fanatic

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• 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.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Better
  • Year
  • Presidential

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Employment

• 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.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Attitude
  • Famous

• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Teach

• To most people, paranoia carries a negative connotation. I believe it is one of the most valuable attributes a leader can have. It is about self-reflection and having the courage, humility, and discipline to constantly ask uncomfortable questions that can potentially poke holes in your strategy and challenge your conventional thinking.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.

  

  Lauren Beukes
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  • World
  • Writing

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
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