Jonathan Raban Quotes
Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I've never been a partier.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I received free health care.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'
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Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.
