Dean Bakopoulos Quotes
Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
Quotes to Explore
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.
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Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.
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I never imagined I'd write a book.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
