Denis Diderot Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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I want to do everything and not get stuck with just one type of roles.
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I can't copy nature.
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A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
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I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
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I bring to the music industry something that isn't over-complicated. What you see is what you get. But, I feel every performer has something unique to offer.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
