Philip Pullman Quotes
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I am who I am.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.
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When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.
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It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.
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Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
