Will Self Quotes
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
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Brenna’s eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead. “Why do I keep telling you things I swore I’d take to my grave?” The contact shot electricity through his nerves. “Because you know I’ll always be your shield against the nightmares.
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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
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And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.
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As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
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Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
