Arthur Mutambara Quotes
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
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'It’s a wonder to me,' said Adams sourly, 'that you don’t simply melt down in the white heat of your brilliance.'
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When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
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Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
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When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.
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I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.
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Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
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I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view.
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The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
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I want to take her into my arms and hold her tight. But at the same time, I know that is the exact opposite of what she wants. She wants to be free, and all I want is to hold her tight against me.
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We don't believe in fighting other democratic forces of this country.
