Ian Mcewan Quotes
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
Tammy Bruce -
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
Kate Christensen -
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power -
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
Adam Brody -
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
Washed Out -
I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
Yelawolf -
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
Aasif Mandvi -
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
E. L. Doctorow -
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston -
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach -
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
Sam Shepard -
My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
Karen Mills -
All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
Kangana Ranaut -
I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
P. J. Harvey
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The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
A. R. Bernard -
A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.
Ndamukong Suh -
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde -
While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
George Hamilton -
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Ian Mcewan