Eddy Arnold Quotes
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.
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I love 'Time Bandits;' it's great.
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Love is a severe mental disorder.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
