Harold Pinter Quotes
Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.
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I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.
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Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
