Arturo Graf Quotes
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I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
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When I directed my first short – 'American Virgin' – I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
