A. S. Byatt Quotes
Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.
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Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
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To Virtue's humblest son let none prefer Vice, tho' descended from the Conqueror.
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We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience... you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views.
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Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.
