Kamisese Mara Quotes
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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I don't have a smart house. My house is very dumb.
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Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
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I have to be myself.
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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
