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Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Herb Brown is like a basketball icon. What's the saying - he's forgotten more than I'll ever know.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard part that I didn't like about recruiting in college was, there was so many regulations. So many rules. It was so many layers to it in the recruiting that I just got fed up with it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
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- Nov 07, 2020