John Cale Quotes
The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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I don't come from money.
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Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.
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In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
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I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.
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The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
