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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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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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate.
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Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
