Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Wenn man nur die Alten liest, ist man sicher, immer neu zu bleiben.
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The one word I hear when people have affairs is that they feel alive. They don't talk about the fact they're having sex. They feel like they are engaged with their life. They describe an experience that beats back the deadness inside, which isn't the fault of the marriage or the partner. It's often the deadness that they have allowed to creep in for years on their own. But by definition, it's a transgressive act. And transgression is a breaking of the rules. And it gives you a sense of ownership and freedom. And ownership and freedom gives you a feeling of aliveness. It's a chain.
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People are pretty respectful for the most part.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
