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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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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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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Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
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Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one.
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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
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There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
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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.
