Andreï Makine Quotes
In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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I believe in a passion for inclusion.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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here was Kenilworth now heading the new department concerned with Personnel - one of those blank administrative constructs which offered no openings into the world of policy. A dead end. - he would soon develop the negative powers of obstruction which always derive from a sense of failure. (IV)
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If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world.
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In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
