#rouge

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#am #among #baton #colonel #honorary

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#away #baton #beard #beat #beatles

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends. ↗

— Baz Luhrmann

#dreams

I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'. ↗

— Zac Efron

#cry #especially #guy #i #movie

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ↗

— George Santayana

#art #bands #etc #football #good

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#demise #did #distance #else #him

Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return ↗

— David Bowie

#moulin-rouge #love

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this? ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#actors #moulin-rouge #movies #movies

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge. ↗

— Jim Broadbent

#place #rouge #without #world #would

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant. ↗

— James Donald

#committed #compared #crimes #emotionally #far