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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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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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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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
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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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Fidel Castro is dead!
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Men and women motivated by faith have every right and obligation to bring their belief and commitment to the public debate. However, that is very different from the governmental establishment of religion that our founders warned against and our constitution prohibits.
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War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.
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One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.
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Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
