Antonella Gambotto-Burke Quotes

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
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  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Live
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• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
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• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

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• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
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• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
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• There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• 'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Green
  • Presidential
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• I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
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• I love the ending of 'The Wrestler.'

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
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• I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
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• China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Trying
  • America
  • Democracy

• Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Process

• It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
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• If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
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• Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

  

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• 'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
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• Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Work
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• The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
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• Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've experienced and then continue the cycle of abuse. Simply put, hurt people hurt people.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Racism

• Consciousness must essentially cover an interval of time; for if it did not, we could gain no knowledge of time, and not merely no veracious cognition of it, but no conception whatever. We are therefore, forced to say that we are immediately conscious through an infinitesimal interval of time.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Time
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• We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

  

  Amy Poehler
  • May
  • Death
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• For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

  

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke
  • Men
  • Used
  • Cynicism