Paul Eluard Quotes
We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
Quotes to Explore
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
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The teaching begins by calling upon us to develop a faculty called yoniso manasikāra, careful attention. The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available to us, clamoring for the sustained consideration they deserve.
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We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
