Jim Crace Quotes
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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As a judge, when I saw veterans in legal trouble, I created the state's first veterans court to help them get treatment and get back on their feet.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
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The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
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When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.
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I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
