Andre Gide Quotes
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
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There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees, And they certainly annoy each other, But they certainly enjoy each other, Yes, they pretend to flout each other, But they couldn't do without each other...
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.
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Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear.
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I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
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I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.
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I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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When I spend a lot of time in New York, or somewhere when I don't have a car, I miss that mobility and freedom that you have when you have a car. You don't have to rely on anyone else.
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I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.
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The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.
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I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. But I also think, in light of some current trends in our culture, that privacy should be respected.
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Wilder would say, 'Ninety minutes for this picture is all my bum can take in a seat',
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
