Orson Welles Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I really hate to write.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.
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If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
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My diet is very kale-heavy. It's so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff.
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In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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The one word I hear when people have affairs is that they feel alive. They don't talk about the fact they're having sex. They feel like they are engaged with their life. They describe an experience that beats back the deadness inside, which isn't the fault of the marriage or the partner. It's often the deadness that they have allowed to creep in for years on their own. But by definition, it's a transgressive act. And transgression is a breaking of the rules. And it gives you a sense of ownership and freedom. And ownership and freedom gives you a feeling of aliveness. It's a chain.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
