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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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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What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'
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I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
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Some in the bitcoin community have always taken an anti-government, anti-fiat, anti-bank approach to their philosophy. Ripple takes the orthogonal side of each of those.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.
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I think golfers get over-concerned about results. Enjoy the process: enjoy the opportunity to play.
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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.
