Archibald Hill Quotes
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
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I love good, loud speakers.
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I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.
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My mother had a gorgeous singing voice, and she'd play these amazing vinyls. My favorite was 'But Not for Me,' on the 1954 album 'Chet Baker Sings.'
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
