Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Quotes
The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I have seen Colonial churches since I was very small, Colonial painting and polychrome sculpture. And that was all I saw. There was not a single modern painting in any museum, not a Picasso, not a Braque, not a Chagall. The museums had Colombian painters from the eighteenth century and, of course, I saw Pre-Columbian art. That was my exposure.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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A theory is a very dangerous thing to have.
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Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.
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You can have your choice of men but I could never love again He's the only one for me Jolene I have to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you and whatever You decide to do Jolene...
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In Stalin each Soviet bureaucrat easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.
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I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.
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Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
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Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.
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The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.
