Nicholson Baker Quotes
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.
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I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
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Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.
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I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
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You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
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While, legally and constitutionally, speech may be free, the space in which that freedom can be exercised has been snatched from us and auctioned to the highest bidders.
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They hear like ocean on a western beachThe surge and thunder of the Odyssey.
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One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
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The light's hot, everything’s hot, I’m hot.
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My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.
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The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
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Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of.
