Eric Newby Quotes
For the memory is selective and it is easier to remember what one wants to remember, so if I have to chose between the splendour and the miseries, I will chose the moments of happiness in spite of the fact that there are few situations in which men and women are completely happy and completely free.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.
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I'd make a bad preacher.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
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She's my kind of rain, hey, hey-hey.Like love from a drunken sky-aye-yai-yai.Confetti falling down on mine.She's my kind of rain.
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But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.
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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Thus he labors, and loudly they jeer at him; - That is, when they remember he still exists. Who. you ask, is this fellow? - What matter names? He is only a scribbler who is content.
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I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.
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For the memory is selective and it is easier to remember what one wants to remember, so if I have to chose between the splendour and the miseries, I will chose the moments of happiness in spite of the fact that there are few situations in which men and women are completely happy and completely free.
