Rene Magritte (René François Ghislain Magritte) Quotes
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'
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Remember that your bird should have no other model than the bat, because its membranes serve as an armour or rather as a means of building together the pieces of its armour, that is the framework of the wings.
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Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
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AIG's failure revealed systemic problems in the OTC derivatives market that went well beyond the failure of a single market participant.
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Designing Woman was written for the screen.
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When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
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Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.
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I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
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The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!
