Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
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Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.
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Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.
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I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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The passive idler of all men in the world is the most difficult to please. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
