Mark Haddon Quotes
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations. Your expectations determine your attitude. Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people. And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you.
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Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.
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A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
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Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.
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People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
