Geoff Dyer Quotes
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
Taylor Dayne -
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
Daniel Cormier -
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
Imre Kertesz -
I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
Karan Mahajan -
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
Karl Marlantes
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
Maika Monroe -
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
Ian Mckellen -
Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
Gail Collins -
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
Gabriel Lippmann -
Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
Damon Lindelof -
Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
Manoj Bhargava
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
Vanilla Ice -
All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot - I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot - 'All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?'
Omar Khayyam -
I have the backbone of an eel.
Betty White -
You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.
Christo -
We are not generally included in that narrative - people of color - definitely, women of color don't normally fit that narrative that has been built around the whole image and the whole story of the Silicon Valley.
Kimberly Bryant
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If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.
Angela Kinsey -
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -
Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.
Ida Pauline Rolf -
There's so much standing around and waiting with moviemaking!
Alexandra Bracken -
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka -
In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
Geoff Dyer