Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
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She did make an extraordinary difference for women as I can tell you from my own personal experience. I well remember the sense of awe when I came to Washington, D.C. ... as a senior in college, sitting across the desk from her. Little did I realize that because of the doors that she opened she would make it possible for me to sit one day at her very desk on the floor of the United States Senate.
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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
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When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
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Whatever form it takes, the possession of the imaginative gift transforms the problem of accounting for human conduct. For now it is not a question of how given needs are satisfied. Deliberative conduct, choice, the prime economic act, depend for their possibility, when they go beyond pure instinctive animal response to stimulus, upon the conceptual power of the human mind. Choice is necessarily amongst thoughts, amongst things imagined.
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I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
