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Tom Wolfe Quotes

'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 2, 1931

Topics

Art Hands Back First Straight He

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

Good Time Experience People Think

I've been awfully busy, and I haven't gone to many movies.

Busy Movies Gone Been Many

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

Africa More Appreciated Lived Being

You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able to freely observe the world. That's the way I like to move through the world; I don't need to be the focus of attention. If I am, it impairs my ability to write and to do what I do.

Focus Yourself I Am World Attention

It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little more poverty would be a good thing.

Life Good Electricity Poverty More

It's a very empowering kind of music, heavy metal is.

Music Kind Heavy Metal Metal Heavy

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

Life Confidence Path Time Yourself

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Corrie Ten Boom

Step Victory First Step Enemy Way

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

Brigitte Bardot

Best World Know Nothing Something

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.

Art Politics People World Language

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

Respect Democracy Direction Go Say

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

Education School Feeling Sometimes

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