Alistair Cooke Quotes
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.
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Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
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Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?
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It's an acting job - acting natural.
