Arthur Hailey Quotes
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When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
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If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.
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I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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When I painted Christ's parents I was thinking of my own parents. The bearded man is the Child's father. He is my father. Chagall stated this in 1950
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I should have known earlier about President Bush, but I gave him some rope - a lot of rope, and then he hung all of us with it. I should have known it when I heard him say 'When it comes to evolution, the jury is still out.' What jury, where? The Scopes Trial is over.
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I didn't grow up on comics, and I read very few.
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When I was young, I wanted to find the Great Dark Man. When I said that I realise now that people thought that by 'dark' I meant black, and that by 'great' I meant big. Whereas I only meant a strong, mysterious person; someone who would 'take me away from all this.'
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The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
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These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.
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I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.
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The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
