Harry Mathews Quotes
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.
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I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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It's cool to know that I can make girls faint.
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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
