Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
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Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?
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I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.
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Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
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They say of us that we are an anti-Christian movement. They even say that I am an outspoken paganist.... I solemnly declare here, before the German public, that I stand on the basis of Christianity, but I declare just as solemnly that I will put down every attempt to introduce confessional matters into our Hitler Youth.
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I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)
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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
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Max Planck was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, because during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood general relativity, he would have gone to bed the way I did.
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry
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I build myself back up and come back stronger. That's what I do.
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Accepting awards when you run record companies and your whole career has been about promoting your team or promoting the artist or delivering hits or building careers, can be an odd one
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Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.
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If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
