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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It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
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I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.
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Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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After the election of George McGovern in 1972 as a peace candidate - I should say his election to the nomination of the Democratic Party - the party changed the rules to steeply tilt that playing field, creating superdelegates and Super Tuesdays that make it very hard for a grassroots campaign to prevail.
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When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.
