Sebastian Faulks Quotes
I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.
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When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
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Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .
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It doesn't hurt for a parent to show up on Open House, the first day of school, like I will be doing this year and checking those kinds of things out.
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Emmet Fox was one of the world's greatest metaphysical teachers. His works have contributed profoundly to the spiritual understanding of millions of people, including myself.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.
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I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
