Ian Mcewan Quotes
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I love anything to do with history.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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I have a pretty open mind about supernatural stuff - I do believe that there's more to this world than what meets the eye.
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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
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To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
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A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
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Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
