Mercedes McCambridge Quotes
I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
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I would like to see a little more rationality in the schedule planning of the end-users.
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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The day Christina comes out of her grave, that's the day he should get parole.
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I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
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And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt
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I think your vision gets better as you get older.
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We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
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The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!
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Her poverty was naked on the empty streets, and if no one walked abroad she felt all the more ghastly, like a wretched sinner in the sight of God.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.
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I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.
