Arthur Frommer Quotes
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
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I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
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He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.
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Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.
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Everyone in their car needs love.
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I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!
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I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.
