Scarlett Thomas Quotes
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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I hate birthdays.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
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I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.
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The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.
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I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.
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People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business.
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Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
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If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.
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I love London, but I love traveling, and I don't think I'll be here forever. Possibly, I'd like to move to New York and do a play in New York.
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But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
