Peter Carey Quotes
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.Peter Carey
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
Rachel Zoe -
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac -
I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
Larry David -
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. Taylor -
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
Beck -
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
Adam Driver -
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni -
I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
Carine Roitfeld
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
Hannibal Buress -
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo -
Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
Park Chan-wook -
My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
Ophelia Lovibond -
The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
Adam McKay
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
Marshall McLuhan -
I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale.
Peter Beard -
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.
Peter Carey