Jim Clark Quotes
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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Everything can be satirized.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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I can't dance.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Public interest is a very unruly horse.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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If you ask two people to remember a specific event, the stories are going to vary wildly because we always make ourselves out to be the hero.
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Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.
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Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
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It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.
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When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.
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The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.