C.P. Cavafy Quotes
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God.. .The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.
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The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
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To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.
