Ernie Kovacs Quotes
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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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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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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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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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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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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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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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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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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I think that a man should not be shy; you should say what you really think and feel - put it out there.
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I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
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There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.
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If the biblical account of creation in Genesis isn't true, how can we trust the rest of the Bible?
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Beat it to death if it succeeds.
