Raymond Chandler Quotes
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
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During one scene, I had to do a shooting drill. He put a psychological spin on it.
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I think we're a working man's band.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
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It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.
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I'm going to trust God that I'm not going to completely burn out, and that I'll have the energy in me to stay in it. Fortunately, I have really excellent people around me that are helping me.
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
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Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
