Geoff Dyer Quotes
I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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It's a weird thing about our business: You give everything you have, and there are moments where you go back and forth in your mind about if what you're doing is brilliant or a total disaster.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.
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The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
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I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.
