Georges Wolinski Quotes
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.
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Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.
