Adolf Loos Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.
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That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
