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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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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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
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All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.
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No man does right by a woman at a party.
