Stromae (Paul Van Haver) Quotes
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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I'm always late.
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We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.
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Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.
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I love those moments in any movie or film where there's a reference to a bigger picture, especially in Marvel where everything is connected.
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For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
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Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.
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You are never relaxed in England. You have a tough league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
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If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds
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I'm just part of the people.
