Sam Endicott Quotes
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
Barton Gellman
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
Pardis Sabeti
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
Larry Ellison
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
Cameron Diaz
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
Fareed Zakaria
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
Zac Goldsmith
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
Tavi Gevinson
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
Ted Nugent
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
Gary Larson
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
Wayne Knight
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
Waite Hoyt
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
Vince Vaughn
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
Talcott Parsons
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
Gavin Andresen
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.
R. D. Laing
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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
Douglas Bader
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Sometimes I like to vent.
Victoria Jackson
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One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.
Camille Paglia
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When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.
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