Alfred Jarry Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.
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Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
