Kingsley Amis Quotes
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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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The more our children see men being paid to take responsibility for children, the more respectable it will be for men to do work compatible with their role as dads.
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Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
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Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?
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Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.
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I try to be myself without being anything different.
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It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
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You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.
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Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.
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Britain, as a relatively large economy which exports more to non-EU than to EU markets, would be better off trading freely with the single market than belonging to it.
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My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy
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It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.
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I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.
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A conquest ideology takes well-meaning accommodation as weakness and always demands more.
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I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
