A Quotes
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“As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?”
“As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.”
“As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel
“As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.”
“As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.”
“As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.”
“As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.”
Source: Manners
“As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.”
“As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk”
Source: Lonesome Traveler
“As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”
Source: If you can't say something nice
“As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.”
“As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.”
“As far as I'm concerned, any Aboriginal that gets out there and accepts money that has been put out as a package for this bicentenary is actually accepting blood money. We've still got people with leprosy and we still got tremendous problems. These problems have not been our problems, they're the problems of the European population of Australia.”
“As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.”
“As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.”
“As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.”
“As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important.”
“As far as I'm concerned, everything's ham and jam.”
“As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.”
“As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“As far as I'm concerned, I don't eat meat.”
“As far as I'm concerned, I just speak the truth.”
“As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
“As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.”
Source: Jack Levine
“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.”
“As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.”
“As far as I'm concerned, I'm the good guy. I'm doing my job. That's how I look at it. I don't look at it as good or evil. I look at it and say, "I have a job to do. I love this woman. I love the people that I work with. They take care of me. I'm going to do whatever I can for them."”
“As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.”
“As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.”
“As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.”
“As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.”
“As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“As far as I'm concerned, leopard is a neutral.”
“As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.”
“As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.”
Source: Fancy Pants
“As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.”
“As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.”
“As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.”
“As far as I'm concerned, Scott Kalitta was already a legend, and he'll be one forever because he was a champion on the track and a champion off it.”
“As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'”
“As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the happiest time of my life is now. There's a future and I can't wait to get to it.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.”
“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.”
Source: The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back