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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

We are full of anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off. And we behave worse in other countries.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "One must steer, not talk."
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It was easy to fool the three of us (tween boys), who were naked with innocence. Michael Ondaatje
Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes. Ivan Turgenev
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Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. Peter O'Toole
I don't wanna take my time going to work, I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag and ten or fifteen girls. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for? Work for what? Money? I got all the money in the world. I'm the king, man. I run the underworld, guy. I decide who does what and where they do it at. What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards Charles Manson
The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark. Max von Sydow
Ho Chi Minh quote: "You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and..."
You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it. Ho Chi Minh
Emile Zola quote: "If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. Emile Zola
Ken Starr quote: "I am not here to accuse the media of anything."
I am not here to accuse the media of anything. Ken Starr
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No one's on at my time but infomercials. Carson Daly
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing. Utada Hikaru
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Instrumental music can spread the international language. Herb Alpert
The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywhere with. Though it has been practised on me time and again I never cease to marvel how it happens that with certain individuals whom I know, within a few minutes after greeting them we are embarked on an endless voyage comparable in feeling and trajectory only to the deep middle dream which the practised dreamer slips into like a bone slips into... Henry Miller
Joe Lando quote: "If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance..."
If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part. Joe Lando
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities. Lawrence Lessig