Kingsley Amis Quotes
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
Kingsley Amis
Quotes to Explore
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
Zhang Zhidong
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
Rafael Cruz
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
Valerie Plame
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Gary Oldman
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It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
Mary Wesley
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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
Oscar Wilde
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In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.
Clayton Christensen
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
Utkarsh Ambudkar
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Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.
Antonio Brown
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
Kingsley Amis
