Alfred Jarry Quotes
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
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I have been vain since birth.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.
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Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.
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In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
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Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.
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It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.
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Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.
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For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.
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All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.
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Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.
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On one side was the pain of the victims of the earthquake, and on the other the pain of the victims of the riots. In decisively confronting this great turmoil, I had to single-mindedly focus all the strength given to me by the almighty, on the task of peace, justice and rehabilitation; burying the pain and agony I was personally wracked with.
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... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.
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What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy.
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It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
