Bernard Kouchner Quotes
I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
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Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
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I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
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The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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We need to figure out ways around those. But those are absolutely fair things we’re asked to do and we’re certainly not complaining about them.
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I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.
