Jeremy Paxman Quotes
At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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about his daughters and nieces having developed a natural curiosity about boys
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Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.
