Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.
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Everyone asks, 'What's your favorite trend?' And I never answer that.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha.
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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
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There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
