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Related It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different b... ARTO LINDSAY We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye... GARY F EVANS... She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God! DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robo... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE I had no interest in hanging out with other celebrity kids, and I was certainly no cheerleader, so I... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different playe... CHRISTOPHER MELONI Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as diff... PARKER POSEY Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch... HOPE LARSON I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Originally these colonies were almost certainly very different from each other. [But] over time they... DAVID LAMBERT It's different from other sports or physical activities in that everybody can be doing something dif... MADELINE HOPKINS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was ... ARTO LINDSAY We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was... DUSTIN KENSRUE We called both the music and the videos CKY because that's all we did, ... I recorded music all nigh... BAM MARGERA I never saw "being different" in and of itself as the point to "being Goth" -- dressing different fr... RUADHáN J. MCELROY No one city can master it all. San Carlos is interested in virtual meetings. We don't have the time ... LEE VANDIVER History teachers help children climb mountains. JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS There's always pressure that way, with the alumni who played here. That's a given coming in. That ha... FRED SKROCKI Those days were very tough, ... All my teammates are white and it was a different time. At times whe... JUAN MARICHAL He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN We don't want to duplicate our efforts with the dollars each of our budgets have. We want to expand ... JAMES SANDERS Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, very weird people were effectively isolated from all t... CALIBAN DARKLOCK Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. ... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Jab Uska Janam Hota Hai Or Wo Is Duniyaa Me Aata Hai Ye Soch Kr Ki Bhaher Ki Duniyaa Bhut Khubs... ASHUTOSH CHAUDHARY When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's s... ERIC BETZIG To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Maybe men and women aren't from different planets as pop culture would have us believe. Maybe we liv... SARAH JESSICA PARKER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the univers... THICH NHAT HANH Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I ca... MOBY I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that be... FRANKIE BOYLE It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps w... S.E. HINTON The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and viol... ELLIOTT CARTER Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset. S.E. HINTON I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ... ANNIE WOLAVER The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to chan... SAFRA A. CATZ We recorded and produced it ourselves. We built our own studio and got all of the equipment ourselve... JOEL CADBURY Our father has always been very passionate about taekwondo. In all honesty, we were forced into it w... CAROLINE MARTON Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my pe... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Kyu ki hm log kosis hi ker sakte hai or ya to aapne suna hi hoga ki kosis kerne waalo ki haar nhi ho... ASHUTOSH CHAUDHARY I think in the very beginning we all were really pushing the ball, and Dee was doing a really good j... CAROLINE WILLIAMS I knew they were my people, but it didn't feel like it. I was pushing against any first-generation n... SCAACHI KOUL We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since... JOSH HUTCHERSON See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - jus... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ we are all a different class in the same category and we are all a person with our own personality MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN I used to spend a lotta time worryin that I was different from other people, even from other homeles... DENVER MOORE Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different... YASUNARI KAWABATA Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. J... MIKE POSNER Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less. JENNIFER LYNN BARNES Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know a... AISHA ALI I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not dif... ISLA FISHER Jean-Michel Basquiat's art, moved our generation in the Samo way, Martin Luther King moved the World... ENRIQUE VEGA I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been spli... SUSAN GRIFFIN Similar to siblings, French Fries all stem from the same family, the potato family. Yet each and eve... HANNAH HART I liked all the children in my class. Back then, I think we all just tacitly assumed that we were eq... JOSS SHELDON I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when h... MOBY It may well be that we go in different phases in different places. There is no reason why we would h... HAZEL BLEARS The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods... JOHN POMFRET I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditionin... HANNAH SIMONE Everything we do really stems from being record collectors rather than musicians. I suppose that's w... BOB STANLEY At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us differe... GERRY BECKLEY We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that... LAKSHMI PRATURY
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MICHEL FABER Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed wi... MICHEL FOUCAULT Where there is power, there is resistance. MICHEL FOUCAULT The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyse... MICHEL FOUCAULT Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the perso... MICHEL LEIRIS The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad,... MICHEL FOUCAULT Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps n... MICHEL FOUCAULT The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doct... 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MICHEL FABER 'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pud... MICHEL FABER It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was... MICHEL MARTELLY Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clerg... MICHEL ONFRAY We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is cl... MICHEL ONFRAY It's about time that Amtrak entered the 21st century. Revenue maximization works, and as Amtrak sees... ALLEN MICHEL Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much. ALLEN MICHEL I would try to settle all the outstanding liability claims at this point in time, so that it doesn't... ALLEN MICHEL They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them ... 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happened. MICHEL EYQUEM No wind favors him who has no destined port. MICHEL EYQUEM I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be cov... MICHEL EYQUEM The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true
courage. MICHEL EYQUEM This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one ... MICHEL AOUN This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the ... MICHEL AOUN Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions, MICHEL AOUN We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian contro... MICHEL AOUN The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explo... MICHEL AOUN one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon. MICHEL AOUN I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still op... MICHEL AOUN If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we ... MICHEL AOUN The focus should be on making sure that the Palestinian infiltration is studied by the government an... MICHEL AOUN If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals. MICHEL AOUN We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected. MICHEL ALABY Ore doesn't have added value. MICHEL ALABY It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure. MICHEL ALABY The idea is to make the chambers speak to the governments to implement these proposals. MICHEL ALABY As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and i... MICHEL ALABY It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man. MICHEL ALABY According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan ... MICHEL ALABY We exported commodities to Somalia. MICHEL ALABY She showed interest in learning about the profile of the Brazilian companies so that they may partic... MICHEL ALABY Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is ... MICHEL ALABY As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps ... MICHEL FOUCAULT For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of though... MICHEL FOUCAULT When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push ... MICHEL GONDRY For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it ... MICHEL ONFRAY A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury ... MICHEL FABER That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking c... MICHEL GONDRY By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which h... MICHEL FABER Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find... MICHEL ONFRAY All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that... MICHEL GONDRY My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his pro... MICHEL FABER I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The mo... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from m... MICHEL FABER Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that sa... MICHEL FABER I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - ... MICHEL FABER We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-wo... MICHEL FOUCAULT I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an... MICHEL SABBAH A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape. MICHEL SABBAH