D.B.C. Pierre Quotes
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.
I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.
It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.
It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.
If you prepare your subconscious for highly stressful situations, you can create harmony with your fears. You can tame fear like a wild animal and use it to your advantage.
I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.
It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.
Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.
People who can give themselves every day. They're the people that I admire, they're real people.
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.
We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.
The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.
Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discovery is most important to me.
I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.
What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.
