Tom Rachman Quotes
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
Quotes to Explore
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.
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I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
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Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.
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With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.
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I love to dance. I've been told I'm actually really good.
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Do you have an emergency fund? If not, build one - aim for three months of expenses to start, then boost it to six. It will ease your anxiety and get you out of a potential jam.
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The relationship between the HBCUs and the auto makers is historically really important.
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I can feel my body is starting to get tired, all that training, which I've been doing three or four times a week since I was eight, and recovery is taking longer.
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I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
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I will never cheat in any walk of life.
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I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!
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My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
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In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.
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Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors.
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I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.
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The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
