Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.
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I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!
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Course you been hurt. You was born to hurt. What make you wanna forget somethin that important? Power that’s worth somethin -real power!-live an’ grow from the hurt you feed it.
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He Manet begged me to go straight up and see his painting 'Le Balcon' - Berthe was model for this painting, as he was rooted to the spot. I've never seen anyone in such a state, one minute he was laughing, the next insisting his picture was dreadful; in the next breath, sure it would be a huge success.
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There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.
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As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
