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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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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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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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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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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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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I've never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.
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Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.
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That was the most important thing to me: making sure 'Gardner Elliot' was likeable and funny and interesting. I took my time before filming to chat with Peter, the director, to create this character.
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The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.
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I'm a bit of a geek, actually. So I always wanted my first film to be science fiction.
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Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.
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It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.
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Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.
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Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.
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Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
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It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
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Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.
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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.
