Sebastian Faulks Quotes
Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.
Sebastian Faulks
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
J. L. Austin
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
Mac Davis
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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm never in control of my time during the workday.
Barbara Corcoran
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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
Gary Ryan Blair
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
Gail Collins
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
Malcolm X
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Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
R. D. Laing
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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
Wendelin Van Draanen
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If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
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I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
Eileen Myles
