Arthur Laurents Quotes
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
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I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.
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HMS Surprise (1973)
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Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.
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Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.
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Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
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My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.
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America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.
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That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
