Alan Furst Quotes

I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

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• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Pretty
  • Talk
  • I Can

• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Never
  • Misunderstanding

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Poverty

• I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Movies
  • Watch
  • Over

• It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Life
  • Me
  • Sense

• Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Change
  • Simple

• Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Stress

• At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Time
  • Down
  • Stock

• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • War
  • Technology

• Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Your

• When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Religious
  • Creation

• Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Eating
  • Common Sense

• I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Alone

• Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

  

  John Milton
  • Mind
  • Troubled
  • Tumors

• There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because it's shiny new technology with a mathematical aura that it's perfect and it doesn't require further vetting. Of course, we never have that assumption with other kinds of technology.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Kind

• Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Children
  • Fathers
  • Provoke

• I guess, like, I've always listened to rap, and I remember I specifically started listening to, like, pop-rap when I was, like, 11, you know, like Shaggy. I love Shaggy. And then I discovered, like, underground rap when I got to high school, and really, that's when it kind of blossomed. I don't feel like my love for rap blossomed off of Shaggy.

  

  Nora Lum
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

  

  Stephen Merchant
  • People
  • Fame
  • Impress

• I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

  

  Alan Furst