Anthony Burgess Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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No two wars are identical.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.
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If I'm with people who are really positive and go with the flow, that's when the best ideas come out for me.
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
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…it was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one’s true feelings.
