Anthony Burgess Quotes
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.
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In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
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Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.
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He forgot that the Malays revere cats and that the Chinese merely relish them.
