"Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Thomas Bangalter

#Patriotic Quotes #America Quotes #France Quotes

“Nietzsche is absolutely correct, even more correct today than when he wrote it in Thus Spake Zarathustra: I looked all about me for human beings but all I saw were fragments, deformed creatures with too much eye or too much ear. This is what the modern culture of specialized intellect-the kind of one-sidedness that banausic utilitarianism alone can value-works so hard to produce.”
“Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.”
“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.”
“Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet â€“ two clarinets.”
“The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.”
“Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.”
“Nature â€¦ is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.”
“My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.”

Source : "Character: Jacques Brel". "Nous les artistes: Jacques Brel", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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