Geoff Dyer Quotes
The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.
Geoff Dyer
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Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.
P. Chidambaram
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
Barbara Hershey
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
Zach Anner
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I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'
Camila Alves
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I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.
Mae Jemison
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
Maika Monroe
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There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.
Ian Ziering
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
Aaron Allston
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It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
Lady Gregory
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I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.
Walter Cronkite
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Those people that created the cultural Marxist thoughts, one guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci, very important within the Frankfurt School, argued against the concept of Marxist Leninism, in which it was basically the revolutionary spirit where someone would say we need to rile up the lower classes and have a revolution and take over the factories.
Andrew Breitbart
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
Willa Cather
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
Wayne Newton
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For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, 'Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.'
David Pogue
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Policies are key and understanding what history shows us is as pivotal as ever.
Nomi Prins
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The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.
Geoff Dyer
