Harry Golden Quotes
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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No man does right by a woman at a party.
