Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?
