Will Self Quotes

Schadenfreude is so nutritious.

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• Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Community
  • Banking

• I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Real
  • History

• I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Yourself

• Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Question
  • Sometimes

• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Nature
  • Here
  • Delight

• South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Family
  • House
  • Generation

• I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Know
  • Thought

• Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Life
  • Leadership
  • My Life

• Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Poetry

• I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

  

  Carla Bley
  • America
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Always
  • Natural
  • Expect

• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • High
  • Value
  • Friendship

• I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, ‘I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness.’ That’s not my job, okay? If that word – ‘marriage’ – is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Struggle

• The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.... Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today.... As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Search

• Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Important
  • Science
  • Education

• True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • True
  • Today
  • Game

• Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Up
  • Age

• I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

  

  Plutarch
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• There are as many types of non-dualities as there are dualities.

  

  David Loy
  • Types
  • Dualities

• We're in the midst of the greatest crisis we've ever seen and if we don't stop laughing about it and deal with it, we're going to find ourself in the midst of chaos, confusion and civil war. It's time we started acting like grownups.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Time
  • War
  • Stop

• History clearly shows that governments that have tried to contain, regulate, or otherwise usurp capital have failed. It is the same with brainpower; no one has a monopoly on brainpower. Controlling brainpower is like herding cats. Brainpower creates capital, and capital fuels brainpower. It is a fundamental dynamic principle. Great ideas, solutions, insights, or inventions will develop only where they are nurtured and properly rewarded.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Develop
  • Governments
  • Ideals

• Schadenfreude is so nutritious.

  

  Will Self
  • Schadenfreude