Abel Bonnard Quotes
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Pain is never permanent.
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I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time
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I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
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A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.
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I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
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In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.
