P. D. James Quotes
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
