Iris Murdoch Quotes
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
Patrick Collison -
This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones -
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt -
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis -
I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.
Taylor Lautner
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
Karl Pilkington -
Small aim is a crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Long-, medium- and short-grain rices differ in the amount and type of starch they have.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
Victoria Principal -
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
Adam Davidson -
I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
Valeria Golino -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel -
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
B. F. Skinner
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Somewhere back at the beginning I was chosen to be Jester, and there is only one Jester at a time in Diaspar. Most people think that is one too many.
Arthur C. Clarke -
…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.
Jasper Fforde -
His decision to study the law had got him as far as hiring Twelve Angry Men from a video shop.
Edward St Aubyn -
My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the extracurriculars I did - played a huge role in me finding my path.
Baratunde Thurston -
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris Murdoch