Geoff Dyer Quotes
I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'Geoff Dyer
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson -
I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
Laila Ali -
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
Jack O'Connell -
I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
Barney Ross
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
Patrick Warburton -
Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
Rachel Zoe -
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo -
Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.
Katee Sackhoff -
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen -
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
T. Harv Eker -
I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
Jack Quaid -
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
Kate Williams -
Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I'm a darned good listener.
Naomi Judd
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I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.
Brian K. Vaughan -
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
Walter Lang -
The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.
Chris Squire Yes -
The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
David Keene -
I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'
Geoff Dyer