Augustin-Jean Fresnel Quotes
It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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There is no way from us to God - not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way - even of this way - would not be God.
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Through the fortunate effect of my frankness, I had the rarest and surest opportunity to know a man well, which is to study him at leisure in his private life and living, so to speak, with himself. For he share himself without reservation and made me feel as much at home in his house as in mine. I had almost no other abode than his own.
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You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
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A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.
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The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
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I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.
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For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.
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It's not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.
