Andrew Denton Quotes
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
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People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.
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I'm not the youngest person at the table anymore. I'm not the young precocious one. I feel like I'm engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I'm treated with respect, as an equal.
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On a couple of occasions in the last weeks, I just said some things that weren‘t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And you know, I‘m embarrassed by it. I‘m very sorry I said it. I have said that, you know, it just didn‘t jive with what I had written about and knew to be the truth.
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Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act.
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When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'
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The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.
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So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, “Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do something you can really learn from!
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If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
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I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.
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The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.
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I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
