Jonathan Coe Quotes
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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Elves are cool, man.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
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You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
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Excess is excrement.
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The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
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Before I got the contract, I'd heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me.
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Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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One, two, three four five, All is well I am alive, Six,seven,eight nine ten, All is well, no whining then!
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But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
