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“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.”
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“We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.”
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“It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.”
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“Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.”
Source : Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.”
Source : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.8, Random House
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“I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne”
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“The Unicorn Sonata ... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.”