Octave Mirbeau Quotes
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn
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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
Olivia Thirlby
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
Randall L. Stephenson
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
Laura Donnelly
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
Harmony Korine
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
Jeanette Winterson
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I am fairly convinced that people plan destination weddings because they would actually like to elope but want to have given you the option to attend.
Emily V. Gordon
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I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.
Dave Chappelle
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Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague
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Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
Peter Tork
The Monkees
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau