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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We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.
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He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.
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Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
