Gary Holder-Winfield Quotes
Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
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My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.
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I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.
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The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.
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I understand now that God trusts me enough to give me three kids - Marvin Jr., Mikaila and Madisson - who totally depend on me. They know I'm going to be there for them no matter what.
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People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.
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I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
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Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
