Martin Amis Quotes
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.Martin Amis
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Now is the only thing that exists.
Dan Fogelberg -
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.
Larry Page -
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.
Randall Jarrell -
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
H. L. Mencken -
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush -
People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
Maggie Wheeler
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. Forbes -
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
R. L. Stine -
The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
Patrick Kane -
If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
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.
Eden Hazard -
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Edie Sedgwick -
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.
J. B. Pritzker -
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?
J. M. Coetzee -
Perl will always provide the null.
Larry Wall -
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce -
The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
Marge Kennedy
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The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
Lupita Nyong'o -
I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
Eric Stoltz -
When we created Overwatch at Blizzard, it was always with the expectation that we would be able to celebrate and recognize our players in a way that would be consistent with traditional sports.
Bobby Kotick -
Righteousness has never precluded adversity.
M. Russell Ballard -
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.
Martin Amis