Jean Dubuffet Quotes
What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallizes into formal ideas but its earlier stages.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallizes into formal ideas but its earlier stages.
