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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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
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I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.
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I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.
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The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.
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I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.
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I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.
