Patrick Modiano Quotes
She committed suicide...'Why?''She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.'
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?
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The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.
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When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.
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The public library is where I studied. It’s where my grandfather taught himself English.
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She committed suicide...'Why?''She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.'
