Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
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The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
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I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.
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The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
