Martin Amis Quotes
Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
Martin Amis
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
Veronica Roth
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
Candace Parker
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
Valerie Plame
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Nancy Gibbs
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
Rand Paul
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
Nadia Giosia
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
Dana Carvey
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
Tatyana Tolstaya
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The way to resumption is to resume.
Salmon Portland Chase
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The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
Bayard Rustin
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'
Marisha Pessl
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
Lata Mangeshkar
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
Ted Danson
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The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
Martin Amis
