Richard Le Gallienne Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.
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I love 70's music.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they.
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Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
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I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
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It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.
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Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.
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I realized I was trained my whole life to be an accommodating person, to make sure that everybody is comfortable before I'm comfortable. After giving so much of myself to strangers, I learned to care for myself a little more, especially on tour.
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I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.
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Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.
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You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.
