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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We care about margins.
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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 was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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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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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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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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One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
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I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
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There's been entrepreneurs working in the Valley for probably 50-60 years. It's not to say that you can't create that in other places, but I think people are a little bit impatient about creating the next Silicon Valley.
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
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A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
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I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write.
