Will Self Quotes
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: 'Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?' With an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them.'
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I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
