Philip Pullman Quotes
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.
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As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.
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How much service have I rendered to my people?
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I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.
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Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.
