Philip Roth Quotes
That body is still new to her, she's still trying it out, thinking it through, a bit like a kid walking the streets with a loaded gun and deciding whether he's packing it to protect himself or to begin a life of crime.
Quotes to Explore
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I can paint in jail.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Too clever is dumb.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
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I grew up around guys and got along with them better.
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Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.
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I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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That body is still new to her, she's still trying it out, thinking it through, a bit like a kid walking the streets with a loaded gun and deciding whether he's packing it to protect himself or to begin a life of crime.
