Adolf Loos Quotes
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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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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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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
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And when you say the truth you get stronger.
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If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
