Jean Genet Quotes
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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Life is full of horrible mistakes.
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A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
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If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!
