Matt Haig Quotes
Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Pilates is great.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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I hate birthdays.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.
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Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.
