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“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
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“In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.”
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“Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.”
Source : Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016 
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“Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.”
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“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”
Source : Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”
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“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.”
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“Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.”
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“The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.”
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“We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.”
Source : "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.
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“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.”
