Scarlett Thomas Quotes
I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
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Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.
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If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
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People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.
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I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
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If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.
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Low ceilings, low doors. I hate that. Oh my God, it's the worst. This world is too small for me.
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The world of Debussy is a seductive oasis, and it is hard to leave it after spending many days immersed in its atmosphere. Playing Debussy-or any other composer with a strong and idiosyncratic personality-affects not only one's cast of mind but the physical disposition as well, the way the muscles work and the fingers come into contact with the ivories.
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I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.
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All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.
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I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?
