Will Durant Quotes
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress -
Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume -
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
Kajal Aggarwal -
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
Federico Fellini
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
Ramez Naam -
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. Forbes -
Values are more important than money.
Viktor Orban -
I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
Rachel Bilson -
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
Ramez Naam -
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
Mal Peet
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
Dan Pink -
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
Yoko Ono -
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
Maajid Nawaz -
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Quintilian -
I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
Rachel Bilson
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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
Edmund Phelps -
I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
Larry Holmes -
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Daniel Dennett -
People want to be connected to be everyone at anytime. They want to talk about their passions, they want to talk about their private life, they want to have the right to speak.
Emmanuel Petit -
Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.
Vladimir Lenin -
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
Will Durant