Mick Ralphs (Michael Geoffrey Ralphs) Quotes
Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.
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Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.
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Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
