Ian Mcewan Quotes
For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Nothing wrong with making money.
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
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I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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I live in a 9 million dollar turd.
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Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,denn das Glück ist immer da.
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
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It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity
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For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.
