Philip Roth Quotes
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Philip Roth
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
N. T. Wright
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
Lamar Odom
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
Gail Collins
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If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
Ian Mckellen
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
Kate Williams
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I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
Harriet Walter
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
Imogen Heap
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Now pray tell me what Time is? ...Time (to speak abstractedly) is the continuance of any Thing in its own Being. But some Things continue longer in their Beings than others... Time absolutely... is Quantity, as admitting in some Manner the chief Affections of Quantity: Equality, Inequality, and Proportion...
Isaac Barrow
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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Jim Rohn
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You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.
John Knoll
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Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.
Lewis Tappan
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Philip Roth