Jonathan Coe Quotes
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.
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When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.'
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There is a certain head, and that head you have not. Now this being so, there is a head which you have not; therefore, you are without a head.
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Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
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My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
