John Banville Quotes
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
Larry Wall -
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown -
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Harold Brodkey -
I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
Mal Peet -
I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
Wayne Coyne
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
Sam Harris -
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
Laura Dern -
The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
Adam Davidson -
Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
Dan Quinn -
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
Sam Harris
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
Vance Joy -
When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
Orlando Bloom -
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
Wendy Davis -
Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
Carl Hubbell -
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
Dakota Johnson
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To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
Lao Tzu -
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
Saint Augustine -
God made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose.
Valorie Burton -
When there's just too much confusion. You simply don't understand what to do.
Sahir Ludhianvi -
I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food...
John Banville