Mark Haddon Quotes
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.
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I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.
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Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?
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How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.
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Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
