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.Nicholson Baker
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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.
Carl Levin -
I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
Felicia Day -
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.
Damian Marley -
If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
Zooey Deschanel -
I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
Haley Bennett -
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.
Zhang Zhidong
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
Pat Robertson -
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.
Olga Korbut -
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?
Paolo Bacigalupi -
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.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
Olivia Wilde -
I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
F. Lee Bailey
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You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
Jane Austen -
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.
Arundhati Roy -
'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.
Charlie Puth -
I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.
David MacKenzie -
'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.
Bill Hader
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Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.
H. G. Wells -
Had a theory that everyone has a relationship with words—whether they know it or not. It’s just that everybody’s relationship with words is different.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
Nassau William Senior -
You just want to keep going, keep putting your best foot forward, keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Amanda Warren -
I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
Al Pacino -
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.
Nicholson Baker