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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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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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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What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
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To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.
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I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
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The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.
