Kerry Stokes Quotes
Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
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That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.
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They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.
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I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?
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It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
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Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.
