Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
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Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.
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Dominus virtutum Has gathered together those that were in slavery, And before I existed He had perceived me. May I be ardently devoted to God! And before I desire the end of existence, And before the broken foam shall come upon my lips, And before I become connected with wooden boards, May there be festivals to my soul!
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.
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I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.
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Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.
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There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
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Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
