Bernard Kouchner Quotes
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
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Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.
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I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
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Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.
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Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
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A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.
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Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.
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Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
