J. P. Donleavy Quotes
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them 'big' and 'small' because when something happens to you, when you loose something or someone that your really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.
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People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
