Martin Amis Quotes
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.
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I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
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Perl will always provide the null.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Our first and foremost duty is to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.
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Big studio comedies are such a headache.
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Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
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When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.
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Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
