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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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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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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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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People want solutions. They're tired of the fight. ... There are ways to reduce the unintended pregnancies in this country. When you do that, you reduce the need for abortion.
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I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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.
