Emile Zola Quotes
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
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On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
