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.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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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.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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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.
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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!
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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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.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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My focus is on my constituents.
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Before the release of my film, small or big, the feeling is always the same.
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Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.
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When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.'
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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
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I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
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Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.
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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.
