Philip Roth Quotes
Oh Patimkin! Fruit grew in their refrigerator and sporting goods dropped from their trees!
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?
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I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
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No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
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I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.
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To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
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Don't take life so seriously. Have fun. Enjoy your time on this planet.
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Oh Patimkin! Fruit grew in their refrigerator and sporting goods dropped from their trees!
