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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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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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.
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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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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
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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.
