Anthony Storr Quotes
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
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A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
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Ἔσω βλέπε· μηδενὸς πράγματος μήτε ἡ ἰδία ποιότης μήτε ἡ ἀξία παρατρεχέτω σε.
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Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, 'He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.' Well, this is the time for bold measures.
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
