Walter Munk Quotes
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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The apple of knowledge is not far from here. As soon as you've eaten it, you'll know as much as I do. But be careful not to make any mistakes: most of the apples hanging from that tree are enveloped in a thick skin. If you taste it, you will be brought low, beneath man; the inner part of the fruit will bring you up to the level of an angel.
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Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.
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Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.
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It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.
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People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.
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As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.
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Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.
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And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.
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I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
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We will use some kind of option and we will throw the football. I hope it will be at our people.
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No voters will be left behind.
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We still have hope; it is what keeps us going.
