Philip Pullman Quotes
'For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.'
Quotes to Explore
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.
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I don't do my own Instagram.
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Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
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I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.
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Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
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The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.
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'For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.'
