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.Rene Magritte
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I think people appreciate honesty.
Naftali Bennett -
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.
Sam Kean -
I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
Narendra Modi -
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.
Ban Ki-moon -
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.
Ingrid Bergman -
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.'
Gabe Kaplan
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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.
Carl Honore -
If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
Magnus Carlsen -
I know all the books of the Bible.
Hailey Bieber -
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.
Dabney Coleman -
I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
Sam Raimi -
New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
Aaron Neville
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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.
U Thant -
With the weekend, I figured I'd let the guys go home,
Joe Gibbs -
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
Louise Brooks -
I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
Lisa Ling -
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.
Marianne Williamson -
Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
Oscar Wilde
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A lot of the politics that is going on left and right at the moment is more about a protest, which we should respond to. It's not often about a policy. And that's why what you get is this strange coalition of different views of what the future should be, coming together in alliance to protest against the status quo.
Tony Blair -
It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.
Paloma Elsesser -
Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.
Rene Magritte