Mohsin Hamid Quotes
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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The devil made me do it.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.
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There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
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I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.
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It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.
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I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
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At TGC, we are firm believers in the value of making games that respect our players.
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The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
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People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.
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I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.
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Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.
