Jean Dubuffet Quotes
Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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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 love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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It's 2013, and you can make music anywhere. We've got laptops.
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The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
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And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
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English culture is highly literary-based.
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Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
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Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.
