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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The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself.
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
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'For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.'
