Nick Harkaway Quotes
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
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I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.
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Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
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I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.
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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
