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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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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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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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?
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Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.
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Nature recharges me.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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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.
