Edward St Aubyn Quotes
Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
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What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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I'm a gun owner.
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I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.
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Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.
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When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life.
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I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.
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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
