Max Jacob Quotes
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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I rang room service, and asked for a bottle of Perrier, because while I was asleep someone had come in and carpeted my throat.
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My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
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Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.
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Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
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Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
