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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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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Sometimes it's good to remember who you are outside of work.
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But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.
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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.
