T. C. Boyle Quotes
Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.
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That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.
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My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.
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Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.
