Donna Leon Quotes
I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
Donna Leon
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
Ian Rush
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
Vince Cable
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
Gary Lineker
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
Larry King
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
Camille Paglia
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
M. J. Rose
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
J. R. Martinez
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
Patricia Polacco
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She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.
Prince Andrew
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The history of art and art’s condition at any time are pretty messy. They should stay that way. One can think about them as much as one likes, but they won’t become neater; neatness isn’t even a very good reason for thinking about them. A lot of things just can’t be connected.
Donald Judd
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The Negro race, instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it, is entitled, judged by the facts of history, to a place close by the side of the Saxon.
Wendell Phillips
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The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
Douglas Rushkoff
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I can't imagine that, now that we have another way to look at the universe, that there isn't going to be some enormous surprises. Things that have nothing to do with what we already know.
Barry Barish
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I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
Donna Leon
