Hal Hartley Quotes
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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There's a number of years that went by going from a white belt to a black belt. And I think, in a similar respect, years go by with your maturation process, and it's just as important to be disciplined with that as it was in karate.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
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I live by a rulebook of eating alkaline - no meat, no dairy, no gluten, I try to stay away from sugar - but I'll cheat when I want to since I'm a bit of a foodie.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
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Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
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We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love.
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
