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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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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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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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.
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I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
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I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?
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Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
