John Lanchester Quotes
If we are going to remake society in the image of the fight against terrorism and put that secret fight at the heart of our democratic order - which is the way we're heading - we need to discuss it, and in public.John Lanchester
Quotes to Explore
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler -
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Gabriela Sabatini
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
Maggie Q -
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson -
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
Warren Beatty -
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
Xi Jinping -
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
Rachel Platten
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
Wale -
I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
Felicity Kendal -
The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach -
Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
Olivia Munn
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
Kate Mosse -
There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
Dan Scanlon -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg -
L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.
Anatole France -
It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.
Kim Cattrall -
If we are going to remake society in the image of the fight against terrorism and put that secret fight at the heart of our democratic order - which is the way we're heading - we need to discuss it, and in public.
John Lanchester