Harold Pinter Quotes
I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
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The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.
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I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
