Philip Pullman Quotes
Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
Quotes to Explore
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.
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I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
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I was at a really low point, thinking of going to university and doing a course because the music thing just wasn't happening for me. But I went on the show and...
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Women in Islamic countries are exposed to male domination as a rule rather than as an exception... If anyone protests... as I have done, you are sure to be branded as a witch... What I demand is freedom for women from male domination and a uniform code... It that can be construed as blasphemy, I cannot help it.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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When you try to build a team, you need a mix of talent.
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Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
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You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
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I reject the notion of football as warfare. Warfare is warfare. We don't need substitutes because we've got the real thing.
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Human beings can’t see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That’s original sin.
