Kingsley Amis Quotes
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
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No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
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It is disconcerting that no one associated with the Guild has yet been able to provide a detailed accounting or basis for these fees, despite the fact that they come directly from dues and fees paid by Guild members, who expect the Guild's leadership and management to be dedicated to furthering the members' health and welfare.
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Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
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The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.
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children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
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Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
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The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.
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The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.
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Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.
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Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
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I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.
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More always means worse.
