Georges Simenon Quotes
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I love taking chances.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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History will treat me right.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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I have never thought of winning an Oscar. Rather, I never thought I would get the Padma Shri. I think God has been kind to me. I think getting Oscar award is not too far away.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.
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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
