Anthony Sampson Quotes
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to GCMG ('God Calls Me God').
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
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Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to GCMG ('God Calls Me God').
