Martin Amis Quotes
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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Se aprende a no necesitar, necesitando.
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We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
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'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.
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If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.
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The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.
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People want to say something negative before they say something good.
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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
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Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
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I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
