Alexandre Vinet Quotes
Our object to-day is to point out to you, brethren, that tendency we all have to consult another, in order to shun consulting ourselves.
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I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
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Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
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There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.
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Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.
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Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'
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Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.
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I gotta shake hands with himǃ That's one guy I know I'm better lookin' than.
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The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.
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In the non-Greek stories, Persia, Egypt, even China, Central Asia, in oral traditions and written literature, anyone who fights Amazons admires their courage and beauty, and they want to be allies of the Amazon; they don't wanna kill them.
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I never wanted to be defined by genre. I always wanted to put all kinds of music together to create a style of my own.
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Our object to-day is to point out to you, brethren, that tendency we all have to consult another, in order to shun consulting ourselves.
