John Lyly Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Birth was the death of him.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
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When God made man she was practicing.
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My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that.
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I'm not the most patient person in the world. I am one of the most persistent people in the world.
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It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
