Kingsley Amis Quotes
Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!
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We must put our energies into solving the difficult problems, in many disciplines, which are involved in renewable sources - on which both the developed and the developing countries must eventually depend.
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The first priority of the Leader is to Pray for and be concerned for the welfare of your flock. The key to the rest of our life and ministry will be the investment of prayer we make in the lives of others.
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I have an American trainer - a bubbly Californian. I tell her, 'Welsh women don't run. We're congenitally incapable.' But she's got me up to five kilometers.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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Any man in the company of two women is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be.
