Adrian Anthony Gill (A. A. Gill) Quotes
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
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I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'
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This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.
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A fixed mindset, creates a tendency to avoid challenges, to ignore useful negative feedback and leads such people to plateau early and not achieve their full potential.
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When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
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Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.
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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
