Ernie Kovacs Quotes
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
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From old Belerium to the northern main.
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
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Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.
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I'm always looking for people on the other side of the aisle for any initiative I'm sponsoring - men and women - to move things forward.
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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
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My court skills may have atrophied.
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I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.
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A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
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It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
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Public interest is a very unruly horse.
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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.
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I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.
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Give me victory or give me death!
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Beat it to death if it succeeds.
