James Blaylock Quotes
I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I'm very open-minded.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.
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Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.
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I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'
