Omar Bongo Quotes
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
