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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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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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
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Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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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.
