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Doug Rice
"Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed."
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Doug Rice
#Crazy Quotes
#Cities Quotes
#Interesting Quotes
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“I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.”
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“I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.”
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“If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal”
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“I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.”
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“Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.”
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“Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find that the ranks have perceptibly thinned. The longshore captain is still there, many of the men who are not any older than myself, but their viewpoint is not that of a man who sailed his square rigged ship out one morning with China as his destination.”
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“I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.”
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“As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.”
