Jonathan Lethem Quotes
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up their racquets and fiddle around. Check out how the racquet was made... toss it around to see how light it was! At the time, I didn't even know I'd play badminton.
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
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When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.
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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
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Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.
