Kerry Packer Quotes
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
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My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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I basically grew up in the backwoods.
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.
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One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
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Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
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Remember that all is opinion.
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Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
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When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'
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I do not believe in planning.
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I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.
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There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?
