Frederic Louis Sauser (Blaise Cendrars) Quotes
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.
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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
