Al-Mutanabbi Quotes
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
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3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Now, metaphorically, I sit at any table that I want. I can sit with the jocks, I can sit with the gang members, I can sit with the politicians, I can sit with the CEOs. My brand can fit anywhere.
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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
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The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
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He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.
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I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.
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So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
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When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.
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Representation makes a difference.
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I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.
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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
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Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.
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Do you realize I was actually on your side of this issue when I was chairing that committee and I first heard about this? I thought it must be true until I found out what it would cost.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
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Content with complete verses, I sleep, while others strain for simple rhymes.
