Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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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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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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The sea has no renewal, no forgetting,no variety of death,is silent with the silence of a single note.
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I believe in 'intelligence,' and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it-an I.Q. or the like.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
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Our culture is a very diverse one, and I think now it is incredibly dangerous and very wrong to persecute Muslims and say there is something wrong with being a Muslim.
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In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.