Geoff Dyer Quotes
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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We learn to love our sweat, we discover our passion to move and connect it to effort, we discover both the animal in us and the power of our imagination
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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Witch, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
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Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not we're alone in the universe, looking at the past of life, the present of life, and the future of life. It's an interdisciplinary study incorporating astronomy, biology, and the Earth sciences.
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In the past, I've been a workaholic. I'm trying not to be anymore.
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My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.
