Jean Genet Quotes
I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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We must never bend too much.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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Everything I say is true.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
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USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
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I grew up in Baltimore and that's why I root for the Orioles. I'm very suspicious of people who move and take on a new team. You should stick with the team of your youth all the way to your grave. That shows a sense of loyalty and devotion.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.
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I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
