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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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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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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The similarity between them is not the taxonomic key to some other, deeper, affinity, and our recognizing its existence marks the end, not the inauguration, of a train of thought.
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Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.
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Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
