Ralph Merkle Quotes
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.
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We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.
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I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
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It's probably this way with a lot of professionals: At first the BlackBerry is a savior, because it makes you mobile, but then it becomes a curse, because you're at a restaurant and looking down at it under the table.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
