Anthony Malcolm Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) Quotes
How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
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I am hoping for a long career.
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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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I fell asleep on the situation. I pride myself on being professional and not showing anyone up. It was a poor error in judgment.
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So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you know, really a love song, but what we see on stage is we see one puppet that's got a ridiculous blonde wig on and she looks ridiculous, and next to her is a head that's just a piece of fabric with a pretty face on it.
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Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
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You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.
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How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
