J. M. Coetzee Quotes
The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
J. M. Coetzee
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
Edmund White
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
Ralph Steadman
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
Eden Hazard
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
R. Kelly
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
Wangari Maathai
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My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!
Ella McMahon
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
Ziyi Zhang
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
Ian Hislop
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Quintus Cassius: I have dreamed of this night, boy.he purred, and gently stroked the side of my face with the baseball bat.Quintus Cassius: In my day, we would say that revenge is sweet. But times have changed. How do you say...? 'Payback is a bitch.'
Jim Butcher
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
J. M. Coetzee