Clark Blaise Quotes
India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
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Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
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The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.
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Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.
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India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.
