Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
Patricia Polacco -
I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
Malik Jackson -
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
Irwin Shaw -
I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
Gary Paulsen -
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
Baba Kalyani
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I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.
Eddie Trunk -
There are no ordinary moments.
Dan Millman -
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie -
Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
Yolanda Adams -
I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
Nargis Fakhri
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I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.
R. J. Cutler -
I tend to latch on to things and not let go.
Damien Chazelle -
I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
Ida B. Wells -
The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man's search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.
Ramana Maharshi -
My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
Barbara Jordan -
If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
Vernon Howard
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Facts are counterrevolutionary.
Eric Hoffer -
I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
Gareth Gates -
Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.
George Washington -
The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner -
When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.
Nestor Carbonell -
I'd no idea if anyone was actually watching.
Kazuo Ishiguro