Hal Boyle Quotes
Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
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I've always wanted to do something in the food and beverage world. Part of my MO is to go into unchartered territory. I enjoy a challenge.
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A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
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The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.
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When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.
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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
