Kingsley Amis Quotes
Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.
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I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.
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Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
