Jean Genet Quotes
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Look at the resplendent colours on the soap bubbles! Why is the sea blue?What makes diamond glitter!What makes Hubli So Special Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets
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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgments; … But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest.
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I think women rule the world, and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
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Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.
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I spent my childhood trying to express myself, and I was not very good at it. In my town, most kids would take up engineering or medicine or something else, but acting was not an option.
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We can't always trust what we see in museums, but we can certainly ALWAYS trust what we read in the Bible.
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What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.
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It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
