Alex Colville Quotes
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
Ira Glass
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
Warren Zevon
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
Imran Khan
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
Walter Kirn
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
Adam McKay
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
Frances Beinecke
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
Viktor Orban
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl Barth
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
A. S. Byatt
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
Jacob Batalon
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If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.
Emil Cioran
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
Felix Dennis
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
Alex Colville
