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“Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.”
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“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
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“As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.”
Source : Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions
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“If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”
Source : "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.
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“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”
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“Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.”
Source : "Interview with Vamps Director Amy Heckerling". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2012.
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“I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, & political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.”
Source : Letter to John Spencer on February 19, 1900. "CB: a Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman". Book by John Wilson, p. 326, 1973.
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“Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.”