Nick Harkaway Quotes
We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.
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Don't kill the golden goose.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.
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If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
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It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.
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Our sages have taught us to learn one thing; `As in the Self, so in the Universe.' It is not possible to scan the universe as it is to scan the self. Know the self and you know the universe.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
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The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
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People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
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We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.
