Daniel Tammet Quotes
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
Jack Ma -
I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
Oliver Hudson -
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
Zadie Smith -
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett -
I am from Karnal, India.
Kalpana Chawla -
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
Kate Winslet -
I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.
Eddie Trunk -
When it gets down to it you just have to act.
Aaron Eckhart -
Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
Dambisa Moyo -
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Ramana Maharshi -
We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.
Gary Neville
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.
Eckhart Tolle -
The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
Samora Machel -
What would happen to the world if we were human?
Fernando Pessoa -
The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.
Orson Scott Card -
'Most of my business comes from picking up the pieces when people get things wrong.' She grinned. 'I’ll never lack for work.'
Jack McDevitt -
For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
Learned Hand
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I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.
Charles Platt -
I'm the person friends come to when they want to find the perfect restaurant or boutique hotel on the outskirts of Paris. As opposed to scouring the Internet for a travel guide, wouldn't you rather ask the people who are really cool who go there? That's what I do.
Meghan Markle -
Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!
Mark Batterson -
I understand you've been running from the man That goes by the name of the Sandman. He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye Of a hurricane that's abandoned.
America -
I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
Daniel Tammet