Georges Simenon Quotes
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When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.
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A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.
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I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
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The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Live fast, die young.
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For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
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I like to run fast but not drive.
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I write in the studio.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
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I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
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In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.
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Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
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I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.
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I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
