Regis Debray Quotes

#1. I like doing both comedy and drama. I'm not really feeling more drawn to one over the other. I also like dramedies. I like movies and TV shows that are mixtures of the two.

Jane Levy

#2. Religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

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#3. Logic only gives a man what he needs ... Magic gives him what he wants.

Tom Robbins

#4. Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

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#5. God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.

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#6. Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

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#7. Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.

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#8. Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

Kahlil Gibran

#9. I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

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#11. But life doesn't often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn't be called life, it would be called vending machine.

Lauren Graham

#12. The man of the future will be young or he will not be.

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#13. The only things that smell good are fat and sugar. Tofu being boiled doesn't smell good. Anything that smells good is fattening.

John Madden

#14. We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

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#15. Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

Pam Grier

#16. My favourite thing is to discover what someone does well and say, 'Do that for me.'

Laurie Simmons

#17. Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

Dennis Crowley

#18. Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

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#19. The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

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