Patrick White Quotes
Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.
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A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
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My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
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I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.
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Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
