Amelie Nothomb Quotes
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.
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I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.
