Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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So many people - it’s just hard to believe, but just so many people dead, so many people gravely injured, so much carnage, such a disgrace. The horror is beyond description. The families of these wonderful people are totally devastated, and they will be forever. Likewise, our whole nation and indeed the whole world is devastated.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
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One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
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People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
