Jasper Fforde Quotes
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
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I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.
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You must dream your life with great care. Instead of living it as merely an amusement.
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Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.
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Strict ethical guidelines need to be developed in anticipation of significant technological and biotechnological advances in order to guarantee human dignity.
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
