Elliott Jaques Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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See, you asked the wrong question. What is good or bad is not my issue. If you pick up things from every nook and cranny and demand answers from me, then aise kaam kaise chalega how will we manage. Whatever my party’s official stand is, I reflect only that.
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
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To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.
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I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
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The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.
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No two men living at the same time live in the same time.
