Red Buttons Quotes
Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
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All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.
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Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.
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Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.
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It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.
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Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!
