Geoff Dyer Quotes
The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.
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When I was three years old, one of the first albums I ever heard was Michael Jackson's 'Off the Wall.'
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It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.
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The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.
