Eliot Weinberger Quotes
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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I'm not musical myself.
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Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.
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Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.
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I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
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Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.
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I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'
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'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.
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If I tell you mozzarella tastes of Italy and miso speaks of Japan, then tucupi [fermented manioc juice] and ants are the taste of Brazil
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I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.
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William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”
