Auguste Renoir Quotes
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I don't study; I create.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I married a woman from New Orleans, so I had family here. Post-Katrina, I had a number of friends call me up and say they wanted to do something to help the community - not just Habitat for Humanity or Red Cross, we've done that, but what can we do for the community.
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You know, if they can do this to me they can do this to anybody, and they have been doing this for over sixty years . . . . it’s a very strange world.
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The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.
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Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.
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All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
