Cesare Lombroso Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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'What is the work of a Master?' said a solemn-faced visitor. 'To teach people to laugh,' said the Master gravely.
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I know that there is one additional thing that I've learned and that is that what Harvard does and says has an enormous resonance that goes beyond Zip code 02138.
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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Political philosophy has lost its credibility in proportion as politics itself has become more philosophic than ever in a sense.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.
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The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
