Cyril Connolly Quotes
Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.
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Obamacare's design flaws were not the fault of the American people.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled.
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The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
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Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.
