John Banville Quotes
I don't know what citizens of Prague must feel about these endless lines of tourists tramping over their streets.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
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It's not about the money with me.
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I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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I feel about 18, but my mind is much more mature now, so it's a perfect combination.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'
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But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.
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I don't know what citizens of Prague must feel about these endless lines of tourists tramping over their streets.
