Mark Haddon Quotes
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
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It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
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We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don't get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.
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There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
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We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
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I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
