"All styles are good except the tiresome kind."
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"To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. But even the sh-tty diner and bars here are kind of exciting for me. Downtown is funky, West Village is beautiful with the cobbled streets, but I love going uptown because you then you go, "F-ck, I'm in New York!" You see all the skyscrapers."
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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
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"Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application."
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"There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
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"I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way."
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"I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus."
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"For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit."
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"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
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"Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead."
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"In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong."
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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"We develop the kind of citizens we deserve."
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"What I saw over all that time were so many deals disappearing and producers disappearing, fewer movies getting made, and it just being a bit more difficult. Working with Joel, we were in a bit of a bubble because he was always making things that were working for the studio and that kind of thing. We were always in production on something."
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"I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big."
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"I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise."
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"I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal."
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"Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods."
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"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."
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"There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma."
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