Jonathan Coe Quotes
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
Jonathan Coe
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You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.
Wayne Rooney
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Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.
Daniel Dennett
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«It is the neighbor who chooses the mayor and it is the mayor who wants the neighbors the mayor.»
Mariano Rajoy
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
Edward Young
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History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.
Jimmy Carter
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
Alan Moore
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
Anne McCaffrey
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My parents are like religious atheists.
Alex Clare
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You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
Andrew Sean Greer
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If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?
C. S. Lewis
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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
Jonathan Coe