Arpad Busson Quotes
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I've been things and seen places.
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I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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'Cooking Lucky' is a show for guys - or girls - or really for anyone who is all thumbs in the kitchen and needs some help cooking meals that are so incredibly impressive they make it look like you've been slaving in the kitchen all day when in reality, they are so effortless to put together that even a moron can do it.
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.
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My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.
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My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
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I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.
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The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.
