Hanif Kureishi Quotes
They gave us the language but it is only we who know how to use it
Hanif Kureishi
Quotes to Explore
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
Barry Eichengreen
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
Karen Armstrong
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
Patrick Rothfuss
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
Bear Bryant
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
Sadie Frost
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
Sam Harris
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza
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My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
Hamish Bowles
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
Carl Orff
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I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
Queen Latifah
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In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.
Yoko Ono
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I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor.
Mallory Ortberg
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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus
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I did a movie with Christopher Reeve when I first came to L.A. called 'Switching Channels.' I asked him if it was weird to be Superman. He said, 'You know, George, I've fought against this whole Superman thing, but one day I realized, 'Hey, I'm Superman.'' So, at some point, I just started saying, 'Good for me, I'm Bryan MacKenzie.'
George Newbern
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What if I bade you leave
The cavern of the mind?
There's better exercise
In the sunlight and wind.
William Butler Yeats
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My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
Pink
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We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.
Mike Rowe
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They gave us the language but it is only we who know how to use it
Hanif Kureishi
