Max Ernst Quotes
Looking at them the metaphysical paintings of De Chirico, c. 1919 I had the sense of rediscovering something I had always known, just as when some event already seen opens up to us a whole realm of our own dream world, one that we have failed to see or comprehend, owing to a kind of censorship.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.
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Where we're operating is orbital adventures. We would offer five to seven days in low Earth orbit aboard our own spacecraft where customers would have the view of the Earth; get to experience really living in space, probably conducting some scientific investigations that we would piggyback onto those flights. So, they would have the whole experience, kind of a mini-experience of what professional astronauts have.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.
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Looking at them the metaphysical paintings of De Chirico, c. 1919 I had the sense of rediscovering something I had always known, just as when some event already seen opens up to us a whole realm of our own dream world, one that we have failed to see or comprehend, owing to a kind of censorship.
