Raymond Queneau Quotes
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.
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You can't hear me? Read my lips!
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We ended up with some pretty good quality videos for next to nothing. We just thought it would be interesting to put WAV files on a DVD and let people burn CDs if they want. CDs are so expensive. I can't remember the last time I bought a new CD.
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Bad b****es do not have promiscuous sex.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.
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I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.
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If the Olympics fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I personally think: we want the Games and we want human rights to be respected.
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds
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Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.
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Carolyn Maloney is very, very comfortable with a whole host of issues, but on women's issues, she is really just one of the few people who understands that women are not only half of the world and half of the United States, but they need an advocate; that they have to have advocacy; that our issues cannot be ignored.
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Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
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Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.
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It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.
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Oh, what a better way to express your love than a plasticbag full of air.
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I just wanted to see the wide world.
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Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.
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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
