Andre Breton Quotes
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
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Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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I always cry at weddings, especially my own.
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Scheherazade is the classical example of a woman saving her head by using it.
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
