William Vogt Quotes
We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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There are two words for everything.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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There is no hard and fast rule as to what makes a successful state-owned enterprise. Therefore, when it comes to SOE management, we need a pragmatic attitude in the spirit of the famous remark by China’s former leader Deng Xiao-ping: 'it does not matter whether the cat is white or black as long as it catches mice.'
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
