Christopher Koch Quotes
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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Classical political economy nearly touches the true relation of things,without, however,consciously formulating it. This it cannot so long as it sticks in its bourgeois skin.
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I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.
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'If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,' she’d said, 'we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.'
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The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?
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Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!' But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
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I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
