Germaine Greer Quotes
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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We shared our father with the world.
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If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.
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I love to conduct opera.
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I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
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I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
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As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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We were very close many times. I don't think there were a couple of times that a hair could have even be between the wheel and my wheel. I don't think we ever touched. I tell you, I respect him a lot after this race. Not that I didn't respect him before, but he definitely drove like a champion.
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In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
