Brian Boyd Quotes
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
Brian Boyd
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When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
Carine Roitfeld
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There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.
Gary Zukav
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Warren Zevon
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
Karl Marx
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
John Burroughs
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
Marc Bloch
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Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.
Chris Daughtry
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
Yehuda Amichai
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
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I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.
Kevin Hart
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt
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In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
Brian Boyd
