Damian Thompson Quotes
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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Pensions are the favors of the powerful, and dangerous to any great intellect. It is only here and there down throughout the ages that a Voltaire is born who does not fall a victim to their blandishments.
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A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
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God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.
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A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling. A lot of hip-hop artists sing about stuff that's more important, but they seldom get heard. The ones who get heard are the ones saying, 'Think about yourself. Make your money. It's all you. Everybody have a good time and party.'
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I have always thought - and a lot of people won't agree with this - that we're incredibly driven by fear, basically. Aren't we? It's awful to be frightened. I think it's a very strong, very powerful thing, fear.
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I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.
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I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
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My career is just kind of crazy.
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I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.
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The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy. The future of the euro is at stake in the next weeks.
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I'm not a New York snob.
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If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.
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If you want to know what London looked like in 1947, with all the bomb-sites, 'Hue and Cry' will tell you. And when I shot 'The Lavender Hill Mob' four years later, it didn't look that different.
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As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.
