Rolf Harris Quotes
I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.
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A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
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I speak 'with absolute certainty' only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any 'authority' let alone 'divine revelation'!
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Mis verdades duran poco en mí: menos que las ajenas.
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I studied archaeology.
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I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.
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We have to keep the families together, but they have to go. What if they have no place to go?
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I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.
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Never take yourself too seriously.
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In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God.
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When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
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It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.
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I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.
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One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.
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I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
