Pierre Schaeffer Quotes
It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I get homesick.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
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One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.
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It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
