Michel Houellebecq Quotes
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.
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The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
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The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
