A. S. Byatt Quotes
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
A. S. Byatt
Quotes to Explore
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
Ed Westwick
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
Adam Grant
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
Bai Ling
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
Taylor Schilling
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People die because they find living too painful.
Malcolm Fraser
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
Orlando Cepeda
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
Damon Lindelof
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I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.
Adam Ferrara
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
R. D. Laing
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
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I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.
Hans Vestberg
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When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.
Amity Shlaes
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I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end, because they don't know who they are apart from the crowds.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.
Jeremy Sumpter
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I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.
Barack Obama
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
A. S. Byatt
