Books Quotes
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I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I really do believe there are huge advantages to being together even though it's difficult, even though we have a lot to learn.
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The best data we have concerning the Big Bang are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.
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I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.
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When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
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Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
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I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
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Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
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When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
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Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
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There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It`s all by the books.
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.
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Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.
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Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
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There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.
