Denis Healey Quotes
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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I am happy in Paris.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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The common denominator is a love of music.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.
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No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.
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While we proceed to safeguard our national interests, let us also safeguard human interests. And the elimination of war and arms is clearly in the interest of both.
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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.
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I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
