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Jean Cocteau

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."

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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."

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"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."

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"Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?"

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"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."

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"I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'."

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"When you make a bet, you're saying something."

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"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."

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"You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you."

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"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

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"I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!"

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"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive."
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
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"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."
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"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work."
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