Nicholson Baker Quotes

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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • American
  • Fire

• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Political
  • Personalities

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

  

  Ian Wright
  • People
  • End
  • Name

• It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Weird
  • Goals
  • Sick

• There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Good
  • Progress

• I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Earth
  • Listen
  • Meat

• My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • City
  • Football
  • Son

• When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Everything
  • Step
  • Ring

• No one is ever ordinary.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Ordinary
  • Ever

• What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Quality

• Thank God for product and blusher.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • God
  • Product
  • Thank God

• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Never
  • Will
  • Practical

• If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Earth
  • Small

• A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Roles
  • Glamour
  • Acted

• Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Question
  • Challenge

• The thing you want your kids to do most of all is succeed in life and be everything they can be. And if there's anything that may infringe on that, that may limit that, I don't want my kids doing it.

  

  Ann McKee
  • Life
  • May
  • Kids

• It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • People
  • Happy
  • Lost

• Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Attention
  • Ignore
  • Pay

• Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Science

• First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

  

  Nicholson Baker
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