Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.
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Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
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Almost two months married.... A better wife I never hoped to have.... She bears with my 'innocent peculiarities' so kindly, so lovingly.... Le...
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I do not like this word 'bomb.' It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.
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Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)
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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure from violent passions or temptations to evil -- those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.
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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
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In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.
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Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
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I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.
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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien.
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If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our ideas; a change which, by its rapidity, seems to us to foreshadow another still greater. Time alone will tell the aim, the nature and limits of this revolution, whose inconveniences and advantages our posterity will recognize better than we can.
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The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
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Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.
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Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
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Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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Le corps, l'amour, la mort, ces trois ne font qu'un.
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A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
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Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
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It is easier to judge a person's mental capacity by his questions than by his answers.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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