Ralph Steadman Quotes
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.
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I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
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I prefer that we sit down and craft a bill that addresses the many challenges we face, not only domestically, but as a world leader.
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I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
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Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
