Edward T. Hall Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
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They intend, if they can, to have an Iraq Americana, but the Iraqi people have decided otherwise.
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The information is in the people, not in your head.
