Peter Greenaway Quotes
Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks...
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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Schooling is so important.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
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Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
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I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
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Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks...
