Comte de Lautreamont Quotes
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I have been waiting for someone to come along and tap into that very real frustration that exists in a very large segment of the working-class Republican base. And no one had done it until Donald Trump. I very clearly saw a void, and I knew somebody would fill it. And the moment I knew he had filled it, I knew he would win the nomination.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
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Neither the current state nor the future prospects of this evolving order can be understood without an appreciation of its history.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
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We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
