Patrick Gaubert quotes

“If you want to attack someone you attack their family. That is easy. You don't have to say directly.”
-- Patrick Gaubert

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“During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved.”
-- Patrick Gaubert

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“The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.”
-- Patrick Gaubert

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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.”

“OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.”

“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.

“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”

“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”

“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

“King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.”

“If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.”

“If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com