Georges Courteline Quotes
Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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You were born as the one you are.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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No one can guarantee success of a film.
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Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
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Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
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The hunger strike at UCLA led to hundreds of students actually studying the farm worker experience and Chicanos in the context of Latin America, whereas they would have been on the outside raising fists and banners. So I count that as activism inside the classroom.
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Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.
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Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
