"Taste is a result of a thousand distastes."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Francois Truffaut

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“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”
“The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.”
“I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.”
“The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, 1990.
“Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.”
“I am tough but I have a soft side.”
“Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.”

Source : Philip Caputo (2005). “Acts of Faith”, p.146, Vintage
“I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.”

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