Arthur Mutambara Quotes
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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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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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
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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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That's how I would describe myself, persistent.
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The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.
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Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
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We don't believe in fighting other democratic forces of this country.
