John Cale Quotes
When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Africa is the future.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
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At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.
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I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.
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I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
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I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
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Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
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The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
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One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
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When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.
