A. S. Byatt Quotes
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
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I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.
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The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
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You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
