Jeremy Paxman Quotes
The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
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I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.
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The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that have to do with it, so there's no way that it can't affect you, and it just kind of makes you think with more of a fashion edge.
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The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?
