Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.
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Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
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Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'
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Not being as self-contained as men, we need to share things: It's almost as though you only know what you feel about things after you share them with a woman.
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I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.
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Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.
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From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
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It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
