Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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The devil made me do it.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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No two wars are identical.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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The message of 'Star Trek,' if there is one, seems to be that we should try to live up to the very best that we're capable of.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.
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[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.
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Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
