Maurice Blanchot Quotes
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role.
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The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
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The last thing our children need is less protection.
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
