Paul Signac (Paul Victor Jules Signac) Quotes
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
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He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.
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Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
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Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
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I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
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I don't like to try very hard. Most of the time it's just jeans, a T-shirt and Converse trainers. Casual, comfortable and boyish is how I'd describe my look. The way people wear clothes makes them stylish, rather than the clothes themselves.
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Everything comes out of what works for me.
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When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.
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I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'
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Moscow... how many strains are fusingin that one sound, for Russian hearts!what store of riches it imparts!
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I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy.
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Motivation is present in the animal kingdom but does not extend throughout it.
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The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.
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Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.
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Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance..
