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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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere -
A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
Jock Sturges -
Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!
Paul Claudel -
I've seen my performances. I don't like them.
Don Ameche -
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
Paul Valery -
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