M. John Harrison Quotes
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I'm not graceful.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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This isn't a drift-net out there where we're soaking up everyone's communications.
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Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
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When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts by 70 percent, you have a disaster.
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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.
