A. S. Byatt Quotes
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There's something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they're going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy!
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Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
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I like producing beats, and I like rapping, too. I have a program for the PC, and I can hook my keyboard to it.
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My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
