Sebastian Faulks Quotes

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

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• Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Children
  • Business
  • Change

• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Past
  • Education

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rock

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Resistance

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Human

• I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Overcome

• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Freedom
  • Property
  • Original

• After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Television

• Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.

  

  Prince
  • Good
  • Rest
  • Evil

• When the Bill of Rights was written, no one owned a MAG5100, 100-round magazine for an M-16. The concept of a mass slaughter carried out over a matter of minutes was incomprehensible.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald

• I was a very strange child.

  

  Alessia Cara

• I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Violence

• I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Thinking
  • Control
  • Listening

• If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Men

• This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm a little bit shy and from the Midwest, so to be so open and honest with millions of people is pretty difficult. To have people constantly having an eye on you and very interested in what you're doing at all times - it can be a little stressful at times.

  

  Connor Franta
  • People
  • Pretty

• My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Strong
  • Funny
  • Moments

• Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Moments
  • Enjoy
  • Happens

• It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Understand

• And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

  

  George Carey
  • Why
  • Growing

• When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Rock
  • Waiting
  • Artists

• I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
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