Charles Baudelaire Quotes
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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I would like to direct.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
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When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.
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How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.
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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
