William Pfaff Quotes
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
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Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.
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And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
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I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
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I live on this nice three acres in Hollywood.
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Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
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The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will.
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The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
