David Lange Quotes
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
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I wrote a song for Icona Pop which boosted my confidence quite a lot.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
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Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
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I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.
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This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
