Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.
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I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.
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With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.
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We have all seen Washington politicians fail us.
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The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.
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The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
