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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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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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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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
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The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.
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The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.
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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.
