Paul Di Filippo Quotes
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
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I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests are adversarial, that there's money versus people. A lot of Goldman Sachs people went into government, so at a time when there's a distrust of institutions, some of that reflects on us.
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Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.
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All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.
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I've got a phobia about throwing up.
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My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.
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I definitely have a Fisher voice.
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
