Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'
Jeff Vandermeer
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I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
Gagan Narang
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
Edmund Morgan
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
Fede Alvarez
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.
Dorothy Dunnett
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
William Shakespeare
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Euripides
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In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'
Jeff Vandermeer
