James Larkin Quotes
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.
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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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At the most fundamental level, it is an honor to serve - at whatever type or size of organization you are privileged to lead, whether it is a for-profit or nonprofit. It is an honor to serve. Starting from that foundation, it is important to have a compelling vision and a comprehensive plan.
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I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen.
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All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.
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The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
