Christopher Isherwood Quotes
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
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On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies.
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
