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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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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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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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.
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Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
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Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
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We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
