Anthony Hope Quotes
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.
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Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.
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In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
