Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes
Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.
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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
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We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
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These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in life. If you're doing something, and you have a desire to do something different, give it a try.
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Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
