Jean Giraud Quotes
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
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This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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We Americans are idealists. We are willing to follow the truth solely because it is the truth. We put our main emphasis on the things which are spiritual. While we possess an unsurpassed skill in marshaling and using the material resources of the world, still the nation has not sought for wealth and power as an end but as a means to a higher life.
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The Beltway Right has entered into a civil union with Big Brother.
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'Life wasn't meant to be easy.'
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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.
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In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
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I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.
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The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
