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 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 candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.
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I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.
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Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.
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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
