Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.
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It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.
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L.A. is a kind of a landing place for some people. People are just in and out all the time. People are there for a short time until they get what they need and then they go somewhere else.
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I felt more comfortable in TV than in the film world where the players were more erudite and intellectual.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.
