J. G. Farrell Quotes
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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Deal-making goes on with any job.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.
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Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
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The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.
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I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
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Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.
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Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
