China Mieville Quotes
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
Ma Jian -
What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
Rajiv Ouseph -
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ice T -
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
Karan Mahajan -
I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
Tamar Braxton
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I love anything to do with history.
Waris Ahluwalia -
If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
Salman Rushdie -
Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Abu Bakr -
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler -
You have to relish the challenge of television.
Laura Linney -
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden
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It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
Yves Behar -
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
Cam -
I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
Ed Sheeran -
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen -
Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation.
Frans de Waal -
I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
Edgar Winter -
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
Matt Taibbi -
There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
Carolina Herrera -
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
China Mieville