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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Uber is redefining the transportation industry now; Airbnb is doing it to the hotel industry. You can expect that to happen in every single industry.
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And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
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It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.
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I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!
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Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
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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.
