Mark Helprin Quotes
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.Mark Helprin
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
Gautam Gambhir -
I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
Ike Barinholtz -
The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
Wagner Moura -
I don't really yell at people.
Nancy Reagan -
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot -
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
Ma Huateng
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
Maluma -
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
Barbara Amiel -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop -
I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
Sam Brownback -
People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
Kate Winslet
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
Pallam Raju -
I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner -
I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
Rachel True -
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Dalai Lama -
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
Jackie Gleason -
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg
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I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin -
If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
David Autor -
No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.
Jami Attenberg -
Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.
Frank Rich -
I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?
Kai Greene -
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.
Mark Helprin