- Nov 07, 2020
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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were ones usually reserved for three-eyed monsters, half-man half-woman reptiles, creatures with hideous rolls of skin that sweated profusely and jiggled when they walked. That last one really was me.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
- Heights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has to be something that I like about a character for me to be able to play him.
- Ticking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like time ticking the way it is.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
- Nov 07, 2020
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
- Pollution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
- Mindset
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it's just you, the ball, and the target.
- Nov 07, 2020