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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It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
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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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Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
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I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
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The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
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I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.
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I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow
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Artists who are the defenders of true life become phonies. That’s the perfidious thing about this world. Society turns anyone with a bit of life inside them into a medical case.
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There is a little bit of the whore in all of us, gentlemen. What is your price?
