Claude Simon Quotes
Each time a writer or an artist 'tells' the world in an ever so slightly new fashion, it is changed.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.
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If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
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You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
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I didn't say a bad thing about 'Politico' in my book.
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When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.
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I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.
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Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
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I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.
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The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
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The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Each time a writer or an artist 'tells' the world in an ever so slightly new fashion, it is changed.
