John Lanchester Quotes
One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
Nathan Deal
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
K. Eric Drexler
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
Eckhart Tolle
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
Ed Rendell
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There is not love where there is no will.
Indira Gandhi
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
AJ McLean
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
Harmony Korine
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
Sabrina Carpenter
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We should all love animals.
Karl Pilkington
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Jack Kemp
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
Dale Murphy
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
Garrett Clayton
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I am an honest, straight guy.
Vijay Mallya
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
Ian Schrager
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
Sabrina Carpenter
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
Sam Mendes
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If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.
Mary Gordon
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'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'
Franz Kafka
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One of the things that happens to you if you write about restaurants - one of the reasons restaurant critics are the real heroes - is that whenever anyone has a grievance about any aspect of the business, they tell you about it.
John Lanchester