Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and 'gives the whole show away.' The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
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The relationships I've had with my wife and children are what mean the most to me.
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Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
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Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and 'gives the whole show away.' The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.
