John Banville Quotes
I hesitate to talk about Czech food. ... The people are very sweet, wonderfully cultured, very friendly, but my God how they eat that food I do not know. It is surely the most disgusting cuisine in the world.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I get homesick.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point.
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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
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So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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I hesitate to talk about Czech food. ... The people are very sweet, wonderfully cultured, very friendly, but my God how they eat that food I do not know. It is surely the most disgusting cuisine in the world.
