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 -
I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
Kate Winslet
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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 -
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
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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 -
However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.
Mary Beard -
When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.
Elizabeth Berg
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I do a lot of screen re-writing.
Bruce Vilanch -
Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.
Joanne Rowling -
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo -
In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.
Corrie Ten Boom -
I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
Daniel Tammet