Rene Magritte (René François Ghislain Magritte) Quotes
Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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With the weekend, I figured I'd let the guys go home,
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
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I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
