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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Oscar Wilde Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • W. Secker Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
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  • Bill Bruford Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Alphonse Allais Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
    Alphonse Allais
    French writer and humorist (1854 - 1905)
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  • Alphonse Allais Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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  • Paul Klee Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Branford Marsalis Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Billy Joel Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late, Ah, but sooner or later it comes down to fate. I might as well be the one.
    Only the Good Die Young (1977)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Lenny Bruce Communism is like one big phone company.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Will Rogers Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • E. B. White Commuter - one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; And man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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