Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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You guys are trying to stop Musial in 15 minutes while the National League ain’t stopped him in 15 years.
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First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
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We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
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Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.
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I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.
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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
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When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
