Wilfred Burchett Quotes
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.
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I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.
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I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.
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I appreciate Detroit so much.
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?
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I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
