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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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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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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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.
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It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.
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Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.
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We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.'
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My favorite comics show the real-life struggles of heroes as well as the fantastical.
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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.
