A. S. Byatt Quotes
Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
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I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
