Maurice Blanchot Quotes
But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.
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Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that's where I got my rapping chops up.
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The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
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I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.
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I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
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But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
