Douglas Kirkland Quotes
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.
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It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
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Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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My mother taught me to read.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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I write in the studio.
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I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.
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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
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It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
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Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.
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When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
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I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.
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Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
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You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.
