Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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Sometimes I like to vent.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
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Don't kill the golden goose.
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.
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I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.
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The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.
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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
