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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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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I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
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Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.
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To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.
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Even though the music I make gathers influences from all over the place, I feel that the core of what I do comes from the jazz tradition. In terms of improvisation, interaction, feel and overall concept, Jazz is my main source of information and inspiration.
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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.
