Paul Auster Quotes
We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I don't really go out at all.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year. I look for the best.
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If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.
