Harold Pinter Quotes
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.
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Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
