Martin Amis Quotes
Vidal is determined to be a) in the thick of things, and b) above the fray. He knows everybody and he doesn't want to know anybody. He has had lovers by the thousand while doing 'nothing' - deliberately, at least - to please the other.Martin Amis
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Ad Reinhardt -
I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
Florence Henderson -
I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
Maika Monroe -
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler -
I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
Frances Beinecke
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Baba Kalyani -
When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
Garry Shandling -
I love action movies.
Adam McKay -
I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
Viktor Orban -
We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
Adam Carolla
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant -
When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
Ira Glass -
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.
Earl Nightingale -
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
Aaron Stanford -
It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.
Ramana Maharshi -
There's a bar in Edinburgh called 'CC Bloom's.' CC Bloom is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That place should just be called 'Fuck-Me-In-The-Ass Bar and Grill.'
Margaret Cho
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
Elfriede Jelinek -
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
John Rhys-Davies -
Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.
Lindsey Vonn -
Vidal is determined to be a) in the thick of things, and b) above the fray. He knows everybody and he doesn't want to know anybody. He has had lovers by the thousand while doing 'nothing' - deliberately, at least - to please the other.
Martin Amis