Geoff Dyer Quotes
In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.Geoff Dyer
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
Fareed Zakaria -
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt -
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley -
Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
Floyd Skloot -
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
Edgar Wright
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen -
Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
Kate Baldwin -
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
Ja Rule -
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
Camille Paglia -
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Patricia Highsmith
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
Sam Hunt -
There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
J. Carter Brown -
My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
G-Eazy -
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
Wen Jiabao -
I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
Larry David -
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
Tariq Ali -
His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.
Marc Davis -
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
Arthur Hertzberg -
In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.
Geoff Dyer