Denis Diderot Quotes
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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I have a smile 24/7.
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Hosting is a thankless job.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.
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I've been very fortunate.
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There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
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Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.
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Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
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I'm playing pretty good now, but my ranking doesn't say that. I'm number two.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.
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What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
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And I stood arrow straightUnencumbered by the weightOf all these hustlers and their schemes.I stood proud, I stood tallHigh above it all.I still believed in my dreams.
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The world did have too many words. The sound of the rain was all we needed.
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I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.
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I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
