Norman Davies Quotes
Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
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It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
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I go to movies. I blend in.
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Greed puts out the sun.
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More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?
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Glenda Bailey is a woman after my own heart who believes that climbing the career ladder can be overrated, to say the least. After all, why not just go for what you want now?
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At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
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If you've been to China, you know there are over 100 cities in China, and the pollution levels are just horrific - 60,000 people a year die in Chinese factories and facilities because they don't have any safety regulations. It's a carnage; it's Dickensian.
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I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.
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When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.
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The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
