Arthur Helps Quotes
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
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I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
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Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.
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All I'm doing is putting Brancusi's 'Endless Column' on the ground, instead of in the sky. Most sculpture is priapic with the male organ in the air. In my work, Priapus is down on the floor. The engaged position is to run along the earth.
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There is a problem that is specific to financial markets. In most fields of research, when someone makes an important finding, they publish it. In the case of prices, they set up a firm and sell advice about their discovery. If they can make money from it, they will. So the research into market dynamics is a closed field.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
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Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
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It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
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No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
