Anthony Burgess Quotes
She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I think the technology will get bigger and the price of Bitcoin will go up, so I'm speculating to increase my purchasing power. But I don't intend to sell the Bitcoin. I intend to hold it until there's a day where I can just use Bitcoin completely.
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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To me, my business is my life.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.
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The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
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There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
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You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.
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On Churchill's Accent 'Ve must conquer da Narjies!' Now, we were fighting and killing Nazis. We all left and went looking for Narjies!
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She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.
