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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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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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One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
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You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.
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Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.
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For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.
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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.
