Will Self Quotes
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour I feel like saying to them: "You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?" But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.Will Self
Quotes to Explore
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
Victoria Osteen -
Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
Karen Salmansohn -
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
Yair Lapid -
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
Camryn Manheim -
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
Taylor Hackford -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
Ted Koppel
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
Ed Miliband -
When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
Sam Kinison -
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Laura Linney -
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold -
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
Adam McKay
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
Mallory Ortberg -
The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
Felicia Day -
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
Hannah Arendt -
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi -
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
Kary Mullis -
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
Zaha Hadid
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Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.
Diplo -
You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
Yaya Toure -
- A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.
Peter Drucker -
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.
Evgeni Plushenko -
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour I feel like saying to them: "You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?" But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.
Will Self