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'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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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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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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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 Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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I love the woods even more than the ocean.
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Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.
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'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
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We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
