Claude Cahun Quotes
Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy fidelity I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I just think people should be able to express themselves.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
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Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
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Whatever results you get, learn and grow from it and move on to the next one.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
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The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.
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Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that's going on in the world and laugh.
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Take a stand and command to demand what's grand.
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If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.
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No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.
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Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy fidelity I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.
