Ravi Shankar Quotes
I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
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It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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One of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there’s no point looking for it.
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Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.
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I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.
