Simon Wiesenthal Quotes
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
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I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
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This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did ... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place. ... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.
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The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
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Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity,
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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Making music sees Cantrell through death and dark times. SeattlePi.com (May 17, 2002).
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At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.
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I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.
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We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.
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And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.
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I'm the kind of person who likes to focus on one thing at a time. I'll focus on my skiing and then when I get to the bottom of my run and the cameras are on me, I'll focus on what I need to say, and then I'll focus that night on recovering and getting ready for the next day.
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Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.
