Gerald Scarfe Quotes
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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I could make a difference.
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Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
