Allen Klein Quotes
While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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You never know when your last day gig is, and if you spend your life thinking about it, you'll drive yourself nuts. But I try not to foster or exhibit any desperation.
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You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.
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As a documentary filmmaker, I try to be sensitive to my subjects.
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The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
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Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?
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While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
