Michel Houellebecq Quotes
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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Our past is who we are, and death is one of our experiences. I lost my husband a long time ago, but it's always yesterday.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
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I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.
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I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
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Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.
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The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.
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An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
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Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.
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All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
