Arthur Koestler Quotes
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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My life is not perfect.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.
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As founders of a company that bore their names, Mr. Pilgrim and Mr. Baxter should have set an example of integrity and fair play, ... Instead, they were at the center of improper conduct that deceived and harmed their clients.
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Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.
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Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.
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The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
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The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.
