John Banville Quotes
Interviewer: What would you like carved onto your tombstone? Banville: I'd rather not have a tombstone.
John Banville
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
Natan Sharansky
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
Hamza Yusuf
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Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
Brian Sibley
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.
Jacqueline Fernandez
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In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.
Phil Klay
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On my left forearm, I've got a gothic cross with a tombstone in the center with the initials 'E' and 'G' for my friend, the late Eddie Guerrero.
Rey Mysterio
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We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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The more you love a person, you more you should respect that person. Encourage her to be the best she can be, and you'll both be happier.
Kelsey Chow
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I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
Bharati Mukherjee
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This country doesn't have a revenue problem - it has a spending problem.
Charles Boustany
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Interviewer: What would you like carved onto your tombstone? Banville: I'd rather not have a tombstone.
John Banville