Sebastian Faulks Quotes
We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.
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From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.
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The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
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I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.
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If the passion for truthfulness is merely controlled and stilled without being satisfied, it will kill the activities it is supposed to support. This may be one of the reasons why, at the present time, the study of the humanities runs a risk of sliding from professional seriousness, through professionalization, to a finally disenchanted careerism.
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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
