Mark Thomas Quotes
We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.Mark Thomas
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner -
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos -
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
Jack L. Chalker -
When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
Jack Dangermond -
I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
Malala Yousafzai
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
Sam Altman -
Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
Venus Williams -
If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
Rachel Roy -
Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
Nancy Gibbs -
I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
E. P. Thompson
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
Rand Paul -
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
Edmund White -
I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
Victoria Justice -
I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.
Rachel Roy -
The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
Damian Marley -
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
Martin O'Malley -
Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
Patricia Richardson -
I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
Abby Wambach -
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Paulo Coelho -
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
Wassily Kandinsky -
We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.
Mark Thomas