Geoff Dyer Quotes
While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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We've established a free marketplace of teacher ideas and donor interests.
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No one ever built the filibuster rule. It just kind of was created.
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I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'
