Geoff Dyer Quotes
The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few.
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I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
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I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
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The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
