Denis de Rougemont Quotes
To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.
