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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.
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Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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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.
