Will Self Quotes
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Quotes to Explore
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.
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Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.
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I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?
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One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.
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It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.
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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
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There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
