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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Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
Garth Ennis -
A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
Abigail Breslin -
People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
Kevin Macdonald -
I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.
Lenny Abrahamson -
Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.
Ajit Pai -
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