David Foster Wallace Quotes
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
Ian Botham
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
Pankaj Mishra
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Samuel Butler
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
P. F. Strawson
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
Adam Hasner
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I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
Lajos Kossuth
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. Griffin
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
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I'm in good shape.
Gary Lineker
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We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.
Faye Wattleton
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
Gary Hamel
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
J. R. Moehringer
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We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
Rani Mukerji
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Se, depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia,Não há nada mais simples.Tem só duas datas-a da minha nascença e a da minha morte.Entre uma e outra coisa todos os dias são meus.
Fernando Pessoa
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If the man who turnips cries,Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had ratherHave a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
Aldo Leopold
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It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
Eric Braeden
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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.
Charlie Sykes
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
Carol Berg
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
Adam Hamilton
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I bought Justin Bieber's house... He had, like, this nook under the stairs which I didn't need, so I covered it up. When I ran into him, he was like 'What did you do with the nook? I used to go in there and play video games.' When I told him it was gone, he was so upset. I didn't think this 20-year-old boy would even care!
Khloe Kardashian
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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
Francis Maude
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'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'
David Foster Wallace