Geoff Dyer Quotes
The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'Geoff Dyer
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin -
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Octavio Paz -
I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
Randee Heller -
First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
Barton Gellman -
I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
Zach LaVine -
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
Natalia Vodianova -
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
T-Pain -
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
Rainn Wilson -
People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
Kate Moss -
I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
Kangana Ranaut
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
Daniel Berrigan -
I'm not a negative person.
Ian Somerhalder -
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
J. Reuben Clark -
Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
Kapil Sibal -
Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
Oliver Tambo -
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
Oscar Wilde
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Prosper Olander had never been in a cathedral, but now he felt something like that, the experience of entering suddenly a space so large, so devoted to a single purpose, that the insides of the heart are drawn for a moment outward and into it, trying to fill it, and failing.
John Crowley -
My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
Kiefer Sutherland -
Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel -
The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'
Geoff Dyer