M. J. Rose Quotes
As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
