Geoff Dyer Quotes
I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.Geoff Dyer
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges -
The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
Jacob Batalon -
If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
Yehuda Berg -
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
Jack Ma -
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
Salman Rushdie -
There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
Halima Aden
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
E. L. Doctorow -
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai Lama -
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
Camille Paglia -
Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
Patrick Dempsey -
Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
Walt Mossberg
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Larry Bird -
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
Pat Brown -
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.
Pat Brown -
Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
Karen Mills -
An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.
Ayn Rand -
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Bertrand Russell
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My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's funny to bring this into it, but one thing I always do is have a cup of coffee. I drink the most coffee when I'm writing songs.
Chris Young -
I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing.
George MacDonald Fraser -
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
Sam Shepard -
I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.
Geoff Dyer