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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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
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I happen to know there is nothing sexy or romantic about love scenes. They are just awful to do.
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If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.
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Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.
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I can't help but look for my future wife in the crowd.
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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.
