Geoff Dyer Quotes
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.
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If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
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I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.
