Harold Pinter Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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I'm pretty confident, I guess I would say.
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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
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It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
