Patrick Modiano Quotes
I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
Quotes to Explore
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?
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Only a few, determined individuals possess the resolve and focus to become the best at anything; and I wanted to be one of them.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
