"If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand."

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Source : Jonathan Aitken (1971). “Land of Fortune: A Study of the New Australia”, London : Secker and Warburg

Jonathan Aitken

#Glasses Quotes #Hands Quotes

“In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.”

Source : Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.15, Routledge
“Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.”

Source : "Interviews with Bob Dole, Liz Smith, Renee Fleming, Ronan Tynan". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2005.
“The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.”
“We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.”
“If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff out and get all purple with it, being cryptic and wearing masks... I think it's a bit adolescent. I wanted to write in a way that was vulnerable. I wanted to have courage in stripping back the opaque stuff so it was just raw. I like lyrics that are a lifeline, that have a purpose to them and are not just meandering around in a masturbatory way. They cut the page.”
“The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.”
“The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.”
“I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.”

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