David Lodge Quotes
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Quotes to Explore
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
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I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.
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As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
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I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'
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Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.
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It's always a longer walk to the men's room, buckaroo.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.
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Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
