Raymond Queneau Quotes
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.
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Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
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I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —
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My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal.
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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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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
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When I moved to New York, leggings were always a staple piece in my closet and I'm always with leggings, a T-shirt, a cool jacket and shoes cause that's what would be easier for me when I was a kid.
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I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
