Benjamin Booker Quotes
I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.Benjamin Booker
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
Garth Nix -
I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
Malcolm D. Lee -
Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
Rachel Kushner -
The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
Adam Carolla -
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
Vincent Cassel -
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
Anthony Kennedy -
How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
Bertrand Russell -
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
Lydia Lunch -
Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.
Clayton Christensen -
Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.
Bonnie Hunt
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Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.
Chris Lane -
If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
Blake Edwards -
Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.
Marc Blucas -
I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
Maya Angelou -
I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.
Christy Turlington -
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
Margaret Wertheim
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It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.
Barack Obama -
Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden -
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope -
I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.
Benjamin Booker