John Lanchester Quotes
I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.John Lanchester
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
Mallory Jansen -
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
Fanny Howe -
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
Zara Phillips -
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
J. B. Pritzker -
My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
Gary Johnson -
People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
Gary Hume -
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
Felicity Kendal -
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
Vera Farmiga
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade -
In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
Zachary Taylor -
You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
Francesca Annis -
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
Waris Ahluwalia
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
Yoko Ono -
I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
Hans Frank -
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
Ann Brashares -
There’s whole sections of my life that I can’t remember. Everything that was my life until I was about 20 is gone.
Matt Bellamy Muse -
I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.
John Lanchester