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.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• 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.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Working
  • Honest
  • Computers

• 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.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • American
  • History

• 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.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • End

• 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.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Love
  • Me

• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Think
  • Modern

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Done
  • Think
  • Best

• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Struggle
  • Fly
  • Blow

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Country
  • Pride

• We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Wish
  • Cancer

• Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Democracy
  • Individual
  • Renew

• Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was - it's a story of human transformation, the powerful epiphany, Malcolm's X journey to Mecca, his renunciation of the Nation of Islam's racial separatism, his embrace of universal humanity, of humanism that was articulated through Sunni Islam. Well, that's the story everybody knows.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Humanity

• I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Country

• I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Respect
  • Church

• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Relationship
  • Say
  • Manager

• The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.

  

  Francois Pinault
  • Women
  • Live
  • Pretty

• The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Country
  • Intellectual
  • Countries