John Lanchester Quotes
My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.
John Lanchester
Quotes to Explore
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
Gary Allan
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
Abraham Lincoln
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
Washed Out
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
Faran Tahir
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We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.
Thomas Carlyle
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When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
C. S. Forester
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I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.
Kelly Rowland
Destiny's Child
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Roses are redAnd ready for pluckingYou're sixteenAnd ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Our experience of reality is the result of the magical alchemy of the creation of our thoughts, our beliefs, our decisions, our attitudes, our feelings. All of these are, for the most part, unconscious. Mindfulness allows us to watch these thoughts and choices and decisions without being triggered and having to take action and give meaning.
Barnet Bain
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My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.
John Lanchester