Jean Genet Quotes

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Jean Genet

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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Queen

• Fundamentals make the market.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Make
  • Market
  • Fundamentals

• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Place
  • Importance

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• I don't persuade to suicide.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Suicide
  • Persuade

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Working

• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Popular
  • Vilifies

• No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • You
  • Young
  • Old

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Night

• Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Great
  • Morning

• But this was my chance to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing was going to stop me.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Chance

• When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Child
  • Animal
  • Circus

• The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

  

  Imelda Marcos

• The way was long, the wind was cold,The Minstrel was infirm and old;His withered cheek, and tresses gray,Seemed to have known a better day.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Long
  • Cold
  • Wind

• On a live performance: 'If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing.'

  

  Art Blakey
  • Live
  • Shoes

• He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Beautiful

• Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Philosophy
  • Personal

• Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Cats
  • Reply
  • Retaliate

• I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Believe

• When I say, Give me love, and I'll give you peace, what do you think I do with that love? You think I make subji (nt: vegetable dish) out of it, or dessert out of it? No. I channel it back. Back to you so that you can grow more, so it can all really happen

  

  Prem Rawat
  • Peace

• Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

  

  Jean Genet