Ian Mcewan Quotes
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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I love collaborating with different people.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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A lot of women say, 'I look good thanks to magic creams,' but that's a joke.
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The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'
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When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.
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I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight.
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I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.
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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
