Jasper Fforde Quotes
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or whatever. It's just about collaboration; it's about being equal people and having more of a highlight on women's athletics and just women being equal in every aspect.
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Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
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My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.
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Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
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The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.
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What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
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The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
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I've been delivering these little homilies since 1980 - that's 37 years - and altogether, NPR statisticians tell me, my bloviation total is 1,656 commentaries - and I trust you've hung onto every word.
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Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
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Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
