D.B.C. Pierre famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.
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I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
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The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
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For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
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Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
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If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
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Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.
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Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
-- D.B.C. Pierre
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Be who you want to be - be free in your own skin, be liberated and feel beautiful, and do what you want to do without judgement
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In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
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You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.
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When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.
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Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together
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