John Lanchester Quotes
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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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 played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
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Ex-cons always say, 'You never know what makes the wheels go round until you’ve done time in the joint.' This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.
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The most signal triumphs of the Romantic portrayal of memory are not those which recall past happiness, but remembrances of those moments when future happiness still seemed possible, when hopes were not yet frustrated.
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I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much I weigh.
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'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.
