David Mitchell Quotes
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
Naomi Klein -
Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
Frances McDormand -
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
Vanessa Carlton -
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
Gavin Newsom -
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
Fionnula Flanagan
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Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
Kapil Sibal -
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
W. P. Kinsella -
Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
Patrick Duffy -
I always try to live in the moment.
Daniel Bryan -
When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
Sam Smith -
I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
Barry Goldwater
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My hair's naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.
Mandy Moore -
I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.
Imelda Marcos -
Yesterday Sisley was looking for me everywhere. Madame Latouche told me that he wanted some information about the technique of painting fans. Well, this means my fans are spoken of.. .I only fear one thing: that they will finally say that's all I am good for! fans!
Camille Pissarro -
'If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.'
Jack Layton -
Both the 228 Incident (White Terror in Taiwan) and the June 4 Incident (Tiananmen Square Incident in Beijing) are like mirrors, reminding the leaders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to engage in soul-searching and learn lessons.
Ma Ying-jeou -
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.
Jacob Bronowski
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
Zooey Deschanel -
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
Viggo Mortensen -
Fashion goes round in circles.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
I am the showstopper. The main event. The Icon that can still go.
Shawn Michaels -
We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.
Ernest Istook -
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
David Mitchell