Kingsley Amis Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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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 job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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So I'm not even sure that he's President of the United States... neither are many of our military people now, who are going to court to ask the question 'Do we have to obey a man who is not qualified under the constitution.
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A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
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I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise to wait until marriage to have sex because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.
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It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.
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There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)
