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.

Andre Breton

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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.

  

  Veronica Roth
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• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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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.

  

  J. Cole
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• I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

  

  E. B. White
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• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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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.

  

  Iain Sinclair
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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.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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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.

  

  Narendra Modi
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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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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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.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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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.

  

  Felicity Jones
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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.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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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.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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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.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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• You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
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• He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Winning the Ballon d'Or is the consequence of your work.

  

  Neymar
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• I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

  

  Frank Richard Stockton
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• I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'

  

  Jordin Sparks
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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.

  

  Andre Breton