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 never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
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Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
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We don't believe in fighting other democratic forces of this country.
