Bart Yates (Noah Bly) Quotes
Yeah, I know what the shrinks say: "Conflict and conflict resolution are the mainstays of human intimacy." That fatuous little axiom may be true, but it presupposes that human intimacy is a desirable thing. I have never been nearly as happy with somebody else in the room as I am when I’m by myself. It seems to me that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
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The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
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Language is the tool of the tools.
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We have a responsibility to be aware of others.
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Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.
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I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything I do not think.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.
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Yeah, I know what the shrinks say: "Conflict and conflict resolution are the mainstays of human intimacy." That fatuous little axiom may be true, but it presupposes that human intimacy is a desirable thing. I have never been nearly as happy with somebody else in the room as I am when I’m by myself. It seems to me that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
