China Mieville Quotes

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Fitness
  • Mental
  • Strengths

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Time
  • Day
  • Woman

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Like
  • Fight
  • Mad

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fight
  • Find
  • Watch

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sex
  • Dog
  • Leaving

• Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Real
  • Future
  • Start

• I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Relationship
  • Perfect
  • Divorce

• When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• After giving birth, I never brushed my hair, my teeth, or took a shower. I looked in the mirror one day and was really depressed.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Giving
  • Hair
  • Mirror

• I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Life
  • Age
  • Free

• And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Creative

• When I went to college in 1988, most people were probably trying to figure out how they were going to decorate their rooms, who was going to be on their floor, what classes they were going to take. My big preoccupation at that point was figuring out how I could get my absentee ballot so that I could vote in Ohio for Michael Dukakis at that time.

  

  Marne Levine
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Because the managerial élites are now so large and have such a dominant effect on our educational system, we are actually teaching most people to manage, not to think. Not only do we not reward thought, we punish it as unprofessional.

  

  John Ralston Saul
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• I love it when people want to interpret my books.

  

  China Mieville
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