Erlend Loe Quotes
...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
Laura Lang
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The thing about Bollywood is that you can't just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
Kangana Ranaut
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
Patricia Heaton
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I like heels and make-up.
Victoria Pendleton
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
Ranbir Kapoor
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Whether you accept Rādhā and Krishna, or not, please do accept their attraction for each other. Try to create that same yearning in your heart for God. Yearning is all you need in order to realize Him.
Ramakrishna
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ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆςκάκιον οὐδέν
Aeschylus
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I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
Britt Daniel
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Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.
Penelope Ann Miller
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Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
Charles B. Rangel -
I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
Andie MacDowell
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
Jill Abramson
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I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
Leslie Fiedler
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I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
Jill Scott
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It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
Jane Kaczmarek
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
Joe Cocker
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Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East.
Jamais Cascio
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Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him
Cyril of Alexandria
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Clock, n.: A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
Ambrose Bierce
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
Rachel Carson
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...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.
Erlend Loe