Ralph Steadman Quotes
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.
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Never been in the habit to look back.
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I have nothing to teach you that will help you to make a living. as art teacher, advising his students
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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I have to prove every week that I'm the best.
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Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
