Comte de Lautreamont Quotes
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I love my sleep.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
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'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.
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I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.
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Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
