Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.
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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.
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A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
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People aren't stupid. They saw what was happening at the Cologne central station. A lawless space was created in the middle of a city of over a million. That has to be addressed and it has to be done so in a sober-minded way.
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Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
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I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us.
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The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
